(Zaman Al Wasl)- Nine people killed and 40 more wounded in airstrikes on the town of Albukamal at the Iraqi border as regime forces backed by Russia aerial cover press to deter an ISIS assault in eastern Deir Ezzor province, local activists said on Saturday. Activist Ibrahim Khalil told...

Flicking through before-and-after photos of Aleppo's Umayyad mosque on his phone, the city's mufti Mahmoud Akkam said he initially wanted the celebrated landmark to be restored by fellow Syrians. But when Ramzan Kadyrov, the strongman chief of Russia's Chechnya region, offered to repair...

Syrian regime army sent massive reinforcements to territory under its control in Deir Ezzor on Monday ahead of a final push for the Islamic State group-held half of the eastern city. The metropolis is the capital of the oil-rich eastern province of Deir Ezzor, regarded as a strategic...

Iraqi forces said they faced tough resistance Monday from Daesh (ISIS) fighters driven out of the city of Tal Afar to a small town where they had "nothing to lose" by fighting to the end. An advance by the Iraqi army and Shi'ite paramilitary groups into al-'Ayadiya was being slowed by...