Turkey has not been able to confirm reports that a senior Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) commander had been killed in Syria, Deputy Prime Minister Numan Kurtulmus said on Monday, in what would be a major blow to Kurdish militants. Turkey's state-run Anadolu Agency reported on Saturday that a...

 The family of American journalist Marie Colvin, who died in Syria in 2012, has filed a wrongful death lawsuit in a U.S. court, accusing the Syrian government of deliberately killing her. Colvin and French photographer Remi Ochlik were killed in the besieged Syrian city of Homs in 2012...

 Islamic State lost an area the size of Ireland - a quarter of its territory - to hostile forces in the last 18 months in Iraq and Syria and is likely to further step up attacks on civilians in coming months, IHS said in a report on Sunday. The territory controlled by the ultra-hardline...

Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al-Wasl)- Media accounts loyal to Bashar al-Assad, reported dozens of army troops have been killed on Sunday near Kansaba town in Latakia province. Mohammed al-Naji, correspondent of Latakia Media Network has detailed that the regime had resumed its attack...