By David Schenker (The Washington Institute)- In recent weeks, fighting has intensified in southern Syria as Russian warplanes and Bashar al-Assad's forces seek to retake the city of Deraa. Located on the main highway to Damascus, Deraa is only a few miles north of the Jordanian border,...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- New American shipment of arms has arrived the province of Hasaka in order to be to be handed Syrian Democratic forces, the PYD-led militias that had announced the near arrival to Raqqa- Deir Ezzor route. Activist Mahmood al-Ahmed confirmed that a military convoy had Monday...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Four Islamic State's militants were killed on Monday when a rival group opened fire on an ISIS-held territory in Yarmouk refugees camp south of Damascus, source said. The powerful Haya’t Tahrir al-Sham alliance, led by the formerly known Nusra Front, hunted four ISIS...

(Washington Post)- Sitting 7,000 miles from the fuss and frills of Sunday's Academy Awards, it was Raed Saleh, dressed in a simple T-shirt, who delivered one of the most powerful messages of the night. In a short acceptance speech — posted online after a documentary about his Syrian...