Reporting by Mustafa mohamed; Transaltion by Rana Abdul (Eqtsad)- Khaled al-Abed, 40-year-old, works in washing dishes in one of the Syrian restaurants in Gaziantep except that the restaurant owner’s relative’s arrival lost him the job he was supporting his family with, after that relative...

(Hurriyet Daily News)- Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu has strongly reacted to photos of U.S. special operations forces wearing Syrian Kurdish People’s Protection Unit (YPG) insignia on their shoulders during an assault on Syria’s Raqqa, saying it is...

Translation by Rana Abdul (Zaman al-Wasl)- Islamic State on Wednesday captured Tell al-Nuri village in Hasaka province from a tribal rebel faction allied with the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), activists said. The activist Rasid al-Janoubi told Zaman al-Wasl that Isis attacks targeted a...

U.S.-backed Syrian militias are not preparing an assault on ISIS' de facto Syrian capital of Raqqa at present, a militia spokesman said, indicating the limited scope of a new offensive in nearby areas where fighting raged on Wednesday. Movements by the fighters in the U.S.-backed Syria...