Syrian warplanes carried out air strikes on Saturday against Islamic State in an area of countryside east of Raqqa and close to where U.S.-backed forces operate, Syrian state TV reported, citing a military source. The attacks in the town of Maadan and village of Bir al-Sabkhawi, near the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The "Spring Revolution Rally" in the town of Yalda, south of Damascus, held an art exhibition, the first of its kind in Syria, entitled “Moments from Syria” on Friday.  The exhibition includes photographs taken by young people from various parts of Syria and...

( The Washington Post )- What did the CIA’s covert assistance program for Syrian rebels accomplish? Bizarrely, the biggest consequence may be that it helped trigger the Russian military intervention in 2015 that rescued President Bashar al-Assad — achieving the opposite of what the program...

At least 20 Yemeni civilians were killed and many others were wounded when a coalition air strike hit a village in the south, officials from the armed Houthi movement and the government said on Wednesday. The U.N. said the victims of Tuesday's bombing, which hit al-Atera village in Taiz...