(Zaman Al Wasl)- The US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), led by the Democratic Union Party (PYD) forces, advanced on Sunday to the area surrounding the town of al-Karama in al-Raqqah countryside while the Islamic State forces announced they killed ten members of the SDF east of al-Karama....

German Defense Minister Ursula von der Leyen on Sunday rejected U.S. President Donald Trump's claim that Germany owes NATO and the United States "vast sums" of money for defense. "There is no debt account at NATO," von der Leyen said in a statement, adding that it was wrong to link the...

Iraqi army helicopters strafed and fired rockets at ISIS positions in Mosul's Old City on Sunday as troops on the ground closed in on the strategic and symbolic prize of the al-Nuri Mosque. Federal Police troops had advanced past the train station in western Mosul closer to the mosque. A...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime forces battled rebel groups at the fringes of Damascus on Sunday, after the insurgents launched an attack from the east of the heavily fortified capital, a monitoring group said. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the army and allied forces had...