Syria's army said on Sunday it had stepped up air strikes and retaken villages in a new offensive on Islamist insurgents in areas close to President Bashar al Assad's ancestral homeland in the coastal province of Latakia. Aerial bombardment had intensified over the past 48 hours...

Syrian regime forces backed by Kurdish Democratic Union militia have tightened the siege on ISIS militants in the southern neighborhoods of Hasaka city northeast Syria, activists told Zaman al-Wasl on Sunday. Activist  Mohamed al-Khalaf, based in Hasaka, said PYD fighters were...

Prime Minister David Cameron wants Britain to do more to help the United States destroy Islamic State in Syria, he said in an interview broadcast on Sunday. Britain conducts regular strikes against IS militants in Iraq but has so far limited its Syrian involvement to flying surveillance...

Syrian regime forces on Sunday have made gains in the eastern countryside of Daraa south Syria, taking control of three hills and district close to military airport, field source told Zaman al-Wasl. The fresh advances made by Bashar al-Assad forces near the Jordanian border rang the alarm bells...