Syrian and Iraqi forces closing in on the last scraps of Islamic State’s caliphate straddling the remote border area between the two countries have already witnessed the jihadists’ likely response. While their comrades mounted last stands in their Syrian capital of Raqqa and the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Despite the two-month-old hunger strike, the release date of 6 Free Syrian Army prisoners held by the US-backed militias in Raqqa since a year still unknown. Activist Abdulaziz al-Mutlaq told Zaman al-Wasl the detained fighters, five of them are family members, were...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- U.S.-backed Kurdish militias on Friday have handed over the Meng military airport in northern Aleppo province to the Russian military, local sources said. The YPG-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) have withdrawn to Tel Rifaat town in the northern countryside of Aleppo...

Daesh (ISIS) is building up its defenses in a pocket of territory on the Syrian-Iraqi frontier, the U.S.-led coalition said Friday, in an anticipation of assaults by Syrian and Iraqi forces aiming to snuff out the extremists' last stronghold. Iraq launched an offensive on Thursday to...