ISIS is forcibly gathering people in and around Mosul for possible use as human shields against advancing Iraqi forces, residents said Wednesday, confirming U.N. fears. ISIS overran large areas north and west of Baghdad in 2014, but Iraqi forces have since regained significant ground,...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian activists documented an experiments of a machine work to eject dense smoke in air as a method of defence against further Russian and Syrian regime air strikes.  The machine is considered a substitute to burning tyres, which residents, especially children kept...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- situation on ground in Syria in increasingly complicating, amid the increase in the number of Iraqi Shiite militias supported by Iran in Syria, not to mention Commanders’ statement of the Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) about heading toward Aleppo after Mosul battle. ...

   (Zaman Al Wasl)- A pro-regime militant group halted a U.N. aid convoy delivering food rations to the northern countryside of Hama province, residents said on Wednesday. The 17-truck convey was obliged to to return back when the so-called Shabiha group, mostly Alawites, threatened...