(Zaman Al Wasl)-  U.S.-led coalition air strikes have killed 15 civilians early Monday in eastern countryside of Raqqa province in support for allied Kurdish militias, local monitoring group said. Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently said the strikes had targeted the town of Kdairan...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The U.S.-led Syrian Democratic Forces clashed Sunday with ISIS near al-Shaddadi town in Hasaka province, forcing hundreds of families to flee the battleground. The ongoing fight is over Markada town, the radical group's last footstep in the Kurdish-dominated province, local...

 The United States has proposed to Russia a plan for managing an increasingly complex battlefield in Syria's main oil-producing region, where U.S.-backed forces fighting Islamic extremists are in conflict with Russian-backed Syrian forces. Marine Gen. Joseph Dunford declined to describe...

By Jonathan Spyer ( Foreign Policy )- On my last night in Damascus, some younger members of the Information Ministry-sponsored delegation in which I was taking part decided to have a drink. It was late April, and the bars and restaurants were doing good business in the cool and breezy...