Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- Sources reported that Syrian National Coalition has started issuing and renewing passports for Syrians living in Turkey, including defected soldiers and officers, beside youth who escaped the compulsory military service and others. Sources mentioned...

(The Daily Star)- The Lebanese Army announced Thursday that it had arrested three people involved in transferring funds from Lebanon to Syria to fund armed groups. Lebanese national Mohammad Dahrouj, who had previously been arrested for smuggling rockets, was one of the three suspects arrested...

Al-Qaeda's Syria wing, the Nusra Front, said on Thursday it had released 27 Islamic State fighters who were arrested week ago with 23 others in the mountainous region of Qalamoun near the Lebanese border. Nusra's Shariah court said the freed fighters 'had not involved in killing acts against...

ISIS controls more than half of Syria's territory after its westwards advance into the central city of Palmyra, an activist group monitoring the war said Thursday. The militant group, which already controlled wide tracts of land in Syria's north and east, captured the ancient city late on...