France has deployed special forces in northern Syria to advise the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) fighting the ISIS group, a defense ministry official said Thursday. "The offensive at Manbij is clearly being backed by a certain number of states including France. It's the usual support -- it's...

Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- The Syrian network of Human Rights has documented that the Syrian regime had killed 19773 children since march 2011, 297 of them were killed by sniping, and 159 under torture, while 10891 were detained, 2716 of them are still in detention. The...

Writing by Ethar Abdul Haq; Translation by Rana Abdul (Zaman Al Wasl)- No Rebel faction on Syrian soil has paid as much of a price from its leaders’ blood as the Islamist Ahrar al-Sham movement did. Many leaders of the movement have been killed in a series of assassinations which stir many...

: ISIS' far-flung enemies in Syria and Iraq pressed ahead on Wednesday with major advances on multiple fronts that have put some of the greatest pressure on the ultra-hardline Islamists since they declared their caliphate two years ago. A spokesman for a U.S.-backed alliance in northern Syria...