(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 21 fighters from the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) have been killed and 3 held captive in an Isis offensive on SDF stronghold south of al-Shadadi town in Hasaka province, activists said. Local sources said clashes erupted between Isis and PYD-led SDF...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian rebels launched Saturday a counterattack on regime forces and allied militias in the southern countryside of Aleppo province, seizing control of three towns, field commander told Zaman al-Wasl. Rebels have recaptured al-Khalediya town and big parts of Barneh and Zeitan...

  (Zaman Al Wasl)- A senior commander in the Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) died of his wounds on Friday in northern Aleppo province, activists said. The Turkish national, known as 'Jiya', was the YPG's  military commander in Sheikh Maqsoud neighborhood of Aleppo city. Jiya...

 Egypt's assistant state prosecutor said on Saturday Italy had demanded thousands of phone records to investigate the murder of student Giulio Regeni in Cairo, charging that the request was unconstitutional. Mostafa Suleiman told a press conference that Italian investigators had made the...