Although Russia claimed to be targeting terrorism when it launched airstrikes in Syria last month, moderate opposition groups and civilians in their controlled areas were the most affected, even more than Daesh. The Russian Defense Ministry claimed Tuesday that its air forces hit 2,084...

At a dusty checkpoint on the front line facing ISIL in northern Syria, a steady trickle of cars, vans and trucks passes by on their way from Raqqa, the extremist group’s main stronghold. The checkpoint near the town of Ain Issa is no more than an abandoned building beside a dirt track,...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian insurgents took control of most of a town on a major highway in the west of the country after heavy battles with pro-government militias, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group said on Thursday. Islamist insurgents from the Jund al-Aqsa group,...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian rebels operating in the coastal region, Bashar al-Assad's historical stronghold, have thwarted army attacks on al Akrad and Turken Mountains on Wednesday as Russia warplanes continued air strikes on their bastions in support for regime troops on the ground....