(Zaman Al Wasl)- U.S.-backed Kurdish militias seized 8 villages from the Islamic State near Markada town, the last ISIS stronghold in Hasaka province, local activists said on Sunday. Abdulmalek al-Ali said the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) had captured the town of al-Hasain in the...

A Syrian fashion designer has sparked anger after she posed on the catwalk with models dressed in Syrian military uniforms at a show in Lebanon. Manal Ajaj made the political statement on Wednesday at the end of her fashion show "Jasmin Goddess" at a hotel in Beirut. The...

ISIS is on the verge of defeat in Syria's Raqqa and the city may finally be cleared of the militants on Saturday or Sunday, the Syrian Kurdish YPG militia told Reuters on Saturday. The U.S.-led coalition against ISIS said around 100 of the jihadist group's fighters had surrendered in Raqqa...

(New York Times)— Ali Shehadeh, a seed hunter, opened the folders with the greatest of care. Inside each was a carefully dried and pressed seed pod: a sweet clover from Egypt, a wild wheat found only in northern Syria, an ancient variety of bread wheat. He had thousands of these folders...