Islamic State fighters launched attacks on government-held areas near Damascus overnight on Tuesday in an apparent response to the group's loss of ground elsewhere in Syria. The jihadist group said in a statement it had attacked the Tishrin power station 50 km (30 miles)...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime stepped up Tuesday its fierce aerial campaign on the desert city of Dumeir eastern Damascus, killing at least 12 people, including family of five members, activists said. At least 60 air strikes were conducted by regime fighter jets on the eastern neighborhoods...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The Kurdish Peoples’ Protection Units (YPG) killed Tuesday at least one civilian and injured several by snipers’ bullets from the militia positioned in al-Sheikh Maqsood neighborhood in Aleppo today in an attempt to cut the road of Kastilo, the sole passage to the city of...

A war plane was shot down on Tuesday by Islamist rebels in an area south of the Syrian city of Aleppo where insurgents are battling the Syrian army backed by allied militias, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. The monitor said a plume of smoke was seen as the plane caught fire...