(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 8 regime troops and allied militants have been killed by Tharir al-Sham Islamist group east of Hama province on Friday, field sources said. The surprise attack launched by the jihadist alliance that includes the former Nusra Front group on regime checkpoints...

 Kurdish-led regions of northern Syria will hold elections on Friday, a historic expression of free will and a message to President Bashar al-Assad as he seeks to reassert control over the whole country, a senior Syrian Kurdish politician said. As Kurds in neighboring Iraq prepare...

 Russia said on Thursday it had warned the United States it would target areas in Syria where U.S. special forces and U.S.-backed militia were operating if its own forces came under fire from them, something it said had already happened twice. Russia was referring to the Syrian...

The U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) said on Wednesday its campaign to capture Raqqa from Islamic State (IS) was in its final stages and its fighters had seized 80 percent of the city. The SDF said in a statement it had opened a new front against IS on the northern edge of...