(Zaman Alwasl)- Heavy fighting reported between al-Qaeda splinter group (ISIS) and Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) in al-Hasakah province, leaving dozens killed, sources and monitoring groups said. Pro-ISIS websites reported that the State...

(Al Arabiya News)- A former officer in Iran’s elite Islamic Revolutionary Guards has been killed in fighting in Syria, Iranian media reported. Abdollah Eskandari had travelled to Syria, allegedly to defend the Sayyida Zeinab shrine in Damascus, a Shiite center of pilgrimage,...

(Al Arabiya- Joyce Karam)- There were no groundbreaking announcements or game changers on Syria in U.S. President Barack Obama’s “West Point” speech yesterday. But there was a shift, as Obama departed from his usual political talking points into embracing a counterterrorism...

Syria's rebel leaders have criticised foreign involvement in the war and blamed outside interference for the splits within the opposition to President Bashar al-Assad. One of the founders of the Free Syrian Army, Riad al-Assad, said that the countries involved in the war in...