(Zaman Al Wasl)- The Islamic State militants attacked regime forces and their allies in the countryside east of Homs and Hama on Wednesday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. Heavy fighting raged around the mountainous Jabal al-Shomariya area in Homs province, and the...

Turkish authorities have arrested a freelance French journalist on charges of links to a Kurdish militia Ankara regards as a terror group, the latest foreign reporter to run into trouble in the country, judicial sources said on Wednesday. Loup Bureau, who has worked in the past with French...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- U.S.-led coalition airstrikes killed at least 50 civilians on Wednesday in Raqqa city, half of which is still held by ISIS, activists and local monitoring group said.  Most of the casualties fell in Albusrarya neighborhood after deadly aerial bombing by the...

Any Russian private citizens fighting with pro-government forces in Syria are volunteers and the Russian Defense Ministry has nothing to do with them, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told a conference call with reporters on Wednesday. Based on accounts from families and friends of the dead...