Rebels of Syria's southern front are likely to form a new powerful alliance similar to Fatah Army in Idlib city, in order to maintain gains they made recently in Daraa province, sources told Zaman al-Wasl. The Islamist rebels, who seized the historic town of Bosra two weeks...

  The Commander of Aknaf Beit al-Maqdis, in special statement to Zaman al-Wasl, said his rebel group was defeated by the Islamic State in Yarmouk refugee camp in Damascus due to the complicity of al-Qaeda's Syria wing, the Nusra Front, and the weakness of allied groups. Abu Ahmed Mushir...

The  United Nations  Security Council said on Monday it would look at how to help some 18,000 Palestinian refugees and Syrian civilians in a camp largely taken over by Islamic State as a top U.N. official suggested it consider measures to evacuate people. Pierre Krahenbuhl,...

Russia  hosted talks involving the Syrian government and some opposition figures on Monday, but the main opposition group stayed away and little progress was expected towards ending the Middle East country's conflict. Delegates said they expected the four-day meeting to focus on...