(Eqtsad)- The intense battles in Deraa’s western countryside and the conflicted sides exchanges using heavy artillery has led to the incineration of large tracts of agricultural land planted with wheat, an important strategic crop that the population in the western area depend on as one of...

 Islamic State fighters captured territory from Syrian rebels near the Turkish border on Friday and inched closer to a town on a supply route for foreign-backed insurgents fighting the jihadists, a monitoring group said. The ultra-hardline group has been fighting against rebels in the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Powerful Ahrar al-Sham movement and al-Qaeda's Syria branch, the Nusra Front, have seized control of a strategic town on the western outskirts of Damascus on Thursday, killing and wounding dozens of regime forces, rebel sources and state-run media said. The capture of Deir...

Writing by Abdullah Al Ghadawi (Zaman Al Wasl)- The war on al-Fallujah is complicated and holds particular symbolism, on the surface a war of trickery controlled by excuses and an ideological and sectarian war when read between the lines.  It is a righteous war where the nullification of...