Islamic State said on Tuesday it had downed a Syrian army helicopter in a desert area of central Syria where heavy fighting is going on, the militant group and a monitor said. Amaq, a news agency associated with Islamic State, said the helicopter was shot down near in the Palmyra desert...

(Zaman al-Wasl)- Democratic Union Party (PYD) fighters have stopped Arabs from entering Kobani, also known as Ayn al-Arab, in the past few weeks, whether they are coming from Turkey through the border crossing of Murshed Pinar or from Islamic State controlled areas in the countryside of Aleppo...

(CNN)- Last week the Russian military brought more than a hundred international journalists, including our CNN crew, to Palmyra. The trip was orchestrated to showcase Moscow's role in liberating the ancient heritage site but it also said a lot about the Russian army's capabilities and the scale...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Major General Jayez Rayan al-Musa, the military commander of the brutal aerial campaign on northern province of Aleppo and regime’s Air Force Chief of Staff, can be ranked as one of the regime's savage officers. The Sunni General who could only assume this post after he...