U.S.-backed local forces fighting Islamic State in Syria on Friday reached one side of the Tabqa dam, one of the top prizes in their campaign to drive the jihadist group from Raqqa city, local campaign officials said. The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), an alliance of Kurdish and Arab...

A U.S.- or Turkish-backed attack on Islamic State in the Syrian city of Raqqa would be illegitimate unless coordinated with President Bashar al-Assad's government, the Syrian chief negotiator at peace talks in Geneva said on Friday. "Any military presence on our territory without the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Islamic State said it had foiled the U.S.-led coalition's air-drop onto the southern bank of the Euphrates west of Tabqa town last Tuesday, Amaq news agency said as Friday's strategic advance of the U.S.-backed forces refutes ISIS claims.   The Pentagon said on Wednesday...

The international coalition battling the Islamic State group will begin a final push on the jihadists' Syrian stronghold Raqa in the coming days, French Defence Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said Friday. But on the ground, the US-backed Kurdish-Arab alliance spearheading the battle for the...