Kurdish Peshmerga forces Monday said they had secured a river crossing point enabling them to open a new front against ISIS and further tighten their grip on the militants' capital Mosul. Backed by airstrikes from the U.S.-led coalition, Kurdish fighters reached Kanhash, the western side of...
Russia and the United States are close to starting joint military action against militants in Syria's Aleppo, Russian news agencies on Monday cited Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu as saying. Fighting for control of Aleppo has intensified in recent weeks and there have been some gains for rebel...
(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian opposition activists say a push by an alliance of rebel groups to open a new front with regime forces in Aleppo has failed. The activists and the websites reported Monday that the rebels retreated from positions they seized near a cement factory a day earlier on the...
The PYD, the Syrian affiliate of the terrorist PKK organization, is being accused of attempting to change the demographic structure in the northern Syrian city of Manbij. According to local sources, PYD forces set ablaze civil registry and land registry buildings in Manbij, shortly after...
