An offensive by U.S.-backed fighters in Syria to clear a strip of land along the Turkish border would free up to 40,000 civilians from Islamic State control if successful, the U.S. military said on Friday in its first briefing on the operation. The assault around the Syrian city of Manbij,...

Translation by Rana Abdul  (Zaman al-Wasl)- The Syrian regime has recruited agents in the ranks of Islamic State, leaked documents showed. The documents published in accordance with Damascus Documents include correspondence between Major General Ali Mamlouk, head of National Security...

 Three Syrian men with suspected links to Islamic State have been arrested in Germany on suspicion of planning a large-scale attack in the western city of Duesseldorf, the federal prosecutor said on Thursday. The plot was uncovered because a fourth Syrian man, identified as Saleh A.,...

Writing by Fuad Abdul Aziz; Translation by Rana Abdul (Eqtsad)- At the first glance, the scene seems strange, men and women who have passed fifty years of age and who have adult children are sitting in language classes to learn the language of the European country they have chosen to live in,...