The ancient mud brick walls circling Raqqa’s deserted old city are almost the only structure still intact. Inside, shops and homes spill crumbling concrete onto either side of the narrow roads, block after block. Fighting between U.S.-backed militias and Daesh (ISIS) in the militant group’s...

An armed alliance involved in a three-week battle over the Libyan smuggling hub of Sabratha said it had taken control of the coastal city on Friday. A group called the Operations Room and its allies have been fighting the Anas al-Dabbashi brigade, a major facilitator of migrant...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Powerful Hayat Tahrir al-Sham alliance on Friday have launched new major attack on regime forces in Hama province, two days after Damascus declared that the central province is free of the Islamic State. The attack took place in the pro-regime village of Abu Dali which...

  (Zaman Al Wasl)- Islamic State fighters shot down a Russian helicopter on Thursday in the central province of Hama, sources said. The Ka-52 Alligator was shot down near the strategic town of Uqayribat while the ISIS fighters were withdrawing from their last stronghold in...