With a sudden lunge through jihadist lines, the Syrian military and its allies are close to relieving the Euphrates city of Deir al-Zor, where Islamic State has besieged an army garrison and 93,000 civilians for years. The advance on the eastern city marks another stinging setback for...

   (Zaman Al Wasl)- Fierce clashes between ISIS and Kurdish-led forces still underway in the last neighborhood of Raqqa's Old City as the U.S.-led airstrikes keep pounding the trapped civilians, local monitoring group said on Sunday.   Raqqa Is Being Slaughtered Silently...

A convoy of Islamic State fighters began a new attempt to reach territory held by the militant group in eastern Syria on Thursday after being blocked by U.S.-led airstrikes, despite warnings of more military action. More than 300 lightly armed IS fighters and about 300 family members...

(Hurriyet Daily News)-  The United States has refused to send F-16 warplane trainers to Turkey after Ankara requested them in order to fill the gap in the number of Turkish jet pilots.  The Turkish Armed Forces (TSK) has been trying to increase the number of its...