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...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Turkish authorities has released a Syrian pilot who was detained seven months ago after he ejected from his warplane at the Turkish border, pro-regime Masdar News reported on Thursday. Colonel Mohamed Soufan, 55, has been freed by the Turkish 3rd Court in the...

(Reuters) - Lebanon’s Hezbollah group dismissed multi-million-dollar rewards offered by the United States for the arrest of two of its senior members, saying on Wednesday they would have no impact. Washington has offered up to $7 million for information leading to the detention of...