(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian opposition forces thwarted regime attack on the town of Maerdis in central Hama province, taking captive 20 soldiers and destroying several armored vehicles, local media center said Wednesday. The regime military backed by Shiite militias waged major attack on the town...

Israeli army announced Tuesday that one of its warplanes had "intercepted" an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) over the coast of the Gaza Strip. According to an Israeli army statement, the unarmed UAV -- which, it claimed, belonged to Palestinian resistance movement Hamas -- had been under...

(Zaman al-Wasl)- Islamic State on Monday downed a regime mig-21 in the eastern province of Deir ez-Zor, killing its pilot, local activists said. Notorious Pilot General Ali Hamze, who was born in Misyaf town in Hama countryside, was shot down with his warplane in al-Thardeh mountain. A...

 An aid convoy was hit in Aleppo province, the United Nations said on Monday, as the Syrian military declared that a week-long ceasefire was over. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group said the attacks were carried out by either Syrian or Russian aircraft, adding that...