Some 100 fighters from ISIS handed themselves over to US-backed fighters in the northern city of Raqqa Friday as fighting continued with remaining gunmen in a pocket inside the city. Omar Alloush of the Raqqa Civilian Council did not give details how the 100 fighters surrendered but...

(Reuters) - Turkey’s military has begun setting up observation posts in northwest Syria’s Idlib province, its General Staff said on Friday, part of a deployment that appears partly aimed at containing a Kurdish militia. Turkey sent a convoy of about 30 military vehicles into...

(New York Times)— Ali Shehadeh, a seed hunter, opened the folders with the greatest of care. Inside each was a carefully dried and pressed seed pod: a sweet clover from Egypt, a wild wheat found only in northern Syria, an ancient variety of bread wheat. He had thousands of these folders...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime warplanes have conducted more than 10 raids on ISIS-held areas in southern Damascus suburbs, local reporter said on Friday. The surprise aerial attack on al-Hajar al-Aswad neighborhood come after two years of calm amid reports of evacuation deal...