U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki Haley, said on Wednesday that Syria's President Bashar al-Assad is a "big hindrance in trying to move forward" to find an end to the country's six-year conflict. "I'm not going to go back into should Assad be in or out, been there, done that,...

(Wall Street Journal)- Hundreds of Islamic State loyalists in recent days have fled the group’s de facto Syrian capital of Raqqa, where emptying streets and a lack of water and electricity point to the extremists’ crumbling control. Raqqa residents said Islamic State’s feared religious...

(Eqtsad)- Arms prices in opposition-controlled areas in northern Syria have fallen to less than half because of the cessation of fighting on various fronts, and the entry of several faction leaders into the trade line. Mahmoud Abu Mohammed (arms dealer) spoke to Eqtsad about the issue and he...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Students in the ISIS-held neighborhoods of besieged Yarmouk camp south of Damascus can not escape the radical curriculum of the Islamic State that incites for bloodshed and brutality. ISIS has forced the teaching its curriculum in 2 schools, one on al-Oroba neighbourhood for...