Islamic State militants attacked Syrian army troops with mustard gas in an offensive against a Syrian military airport in the eastern province of Deir al-Zor that borders Iraq, state media said on late Monday. Syrian state media did not disclose how many casualties were sustained...

(ICIJ)- One morning in mid-2014, before the summer sun had reached its peak, two elderly men in Aleppo, Syria, sat on plastic chairs, chatting quietly and drinking black coffee. From his perch outside his food stall, Sabri Wahid Asfur and his friend Abu Yassin watched their neighbors go...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Bashar al-Assad intelligence does not trigger much in non-Syrians; however, the phrase triggers many different responses in Syrians and that depends on their experience with the intelligence or on the stories they have heard about each intelligence branch and its crimes....

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syria's al Qaeda branch, the Nusra Front carried out a surprise attack on regime barracks in Khanayfes village near al-Salamiya southeastern Hama province, media activists said Monday. Homs Media Center stated that al-Nusra Front fighters infiltrated to the stronghold and...