A U.S.-backed alliance of Syrian Kurds and Arab rebel groups advanced toward a dam in northern Syria held by Islamic State fighters on Thursday, in an assault aimed at capturing the militants' stronghold of Raqqa, rebels and a monitor said. They said the push by fighters of the Democratic...

(Translation by Yusra Ahmed) (Zaman Al Wasl)- A former detainee in Sednaya prison revealed that thousands of detainees there were killed in Tishreen Military hospital in Damascus, as the hospital had designated small rooms to each military of civil prison, in those rooms many...

(Syria Comment)- The Syrian Islamist group known as Ahrar al-Sham Islamic Movement, which is one of the biggest armed groups in the country, has elected a new leader: Abu Yahia al-Hamawi. Founded in 2011, Ahrar al-Sham was first led by Hassane Abboud, who also used the alias Abu Abdullah...

ISIS fighters on Monday have withdrawn from their last stronghold near Kobani town in the eastern countryside of Aleppo after a fierce fighting with Free Syria Army and Kurdish People’s Protection Units, according to Zaman al-Wasl. The radical Sunni group dubbed its withdrawal’ from the...