A US-backed Kurdish-Arab alliance pushed closer to Raqqa in Syria while Iraqi forces seized a key town near Mosul as offensives progressed against the two ISIS strongholds. After announcing the launch of the long-awaited assault on Raqqa on Sunday, the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) alliance...

(Zaman al-Wasl) Journalists Without Borders announced Monday evening that it awarded its Press Freedom prize for 2016 to the colleague, journalist and activist Hadi Abdullah, “who did not hesitate to go to dangerous areas where no western journalist would go to film and investigate with...

(Eqtsad)- Negotiation between the Syrian regime and opposition factions in Khan al-Shih camp are ongoing after heavy military campaign by the regime for months, sources revealed.  During the military campaign, regime has recaptured the village of Deir Khobuyah next to Khan al-Shih,...

(Zaman al-Wasl)- In the building of regime military operations in Assad outskirt in Aleppo, a Syrian resistance fighter who stormed the builiding opened a group of drawers of an office beside a bed, and he saw what would not cross anyone’s mind. He found identification documents including...