Briyar Kamal, a 24-year-old Kurdish student, achieved good marks at university, but instead of relaxing during his summer holiday he is fighting jihadists who have overrun swathes of Iraq. "If the nation needs me here, I will continue to fight. Only when the situation improves...

(Zaman Alwasl)- Commander of al-Omari brigades in south Syria was killed when an activist works in media shot him dead in Jalin village in Daraa province, activists and a monitoring group said. Former ٍSyrian army defector, Captain Qais Qataena, was...

By George Hadad; Translation by Dani Murad (Zaman Alwasl)- Syrian women not only have borne the burden of the country’s brutal three-year war, but many having taken on new roles as political activists, detainees, humanitarians ,family breadwinners,...

(Zaman Alwasl- Reuters) - Islamic State militants have executed Syrian army soldiers who were held as captives after capturing an air base in northeast Syria at the weekend, footage and pictures posted on social media by supporters showed on Thursday. The footage showed tens of...