(Zaman Al Wasl)- Russia`s airstrikes on Saturday have killed 14 civilians in Deir Ezzor province as  regime army, Kurdish and Iraqi forces tighten noose on ISIS in eastern Syria, local activists said.    Ahmed Ramdan, from Furat Post, localmonitorng group based in Deir...

U.S.-backed militias said they came under attack on Saturday from Russian jets and Syrian government forces in Syria’s Deir al-Zor border province, a focus of an increasingly complex conflict. The strikes wounded six fighters from the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), according to the...

The parliament of Iraq’s autonomous Kurdistan region approved a plan on Friday to hold a referendum on independence on Sept. 25, ignoring opposition from Baghdad and the wider region as well as Western concerns that the vote could spark fresh conflict. Parliament reconvened in Erbil,...

U.S.-backed Syrian militias will not let government forces cross the Euphrates River in their bid to recover eastern Syria, their commander said on Friday, but Russia said army units had already done so near the city of Deir al-Zor. An aide to President Bashar al-Assad meanwhile said...