(Zaman Al Wasl)- Key rebel group al-Shamiya Front on Tuesday made more progress  north of Aleppo, taking control of al-Mayyasat hill day after capturing strategic Majbal al-Braij district. Field sources told Zaman al-Wasl that Islamist...

(Reuters) - Forty-one Islamic State militants were killed in the Syrian border town of Kobani on Tuesday as U.S.-led air strikes helped local forces push the group to the city's edges, a monitoring group said. The predominantly Kurdish town, known as Ayn al-Arab in Arabic,...

(Reuters) - Western states are focusing too much on tackling Islamic State and are forgetting the daily suffering of ordinary Syrians in areas of the country where the medical situation has become catastrophic, a group of Syrian doctors said. Some 200,000 people have died...

(Reuters) - A top figure in Islamic State's self-declared police force, which has carried out beheadings, was himself found decapitated in eastern Syria , a monitoring group said. The man was an Egyptian national and was known as the deputy "emir" of the al-Hesbah force in a...