U.S.-backed fighters Monday combed through a central district of Syria's Raqqa that once housed key Daesh (ISIS) command centers, recovering communication equipment and weapons used by the militants. The Syrian Democratic Forces have captured around 90 percent of Daesh's one-time...

RAQQA, Syria (Reuters) - Raqqa’s hospital, a big complex pocked with bullets holes, whose capture will signal the end of Islamic State’s crumbling Syrian capital, lies just 200 yards from a front-line base of the Syrian Democratic Forces. Beyond it, a roundabout where the jihadists...

By Maya Gebeily  (AFP)- Just after sunrise outside Syria's Raqa, dozens of Islamic State group jihadists donned Kurdish military uniforms, piled into cars with weapons, and broke back into a district they lost control of months ago. The raid was the latest evidence that IS,...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Nine people killed and 40 more wounded in airstrikes on the town of Albukamal at the Iraqi border as regime forces backed by Russia aerial cover press to deter an ISIS assault in eastern Deir Ezzor province, local activists said on Saturday. Activist Ibrahim Khalil told...