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Military police chase Latakia's youth for conscription

(Zaman Al Wasl)-The military police forces search and arrest young men from streets of Latakia to send them for mandatory conscription and military reserve service. Latakia News, pro-regime Facebook page, mentioned that patrols of the military police forces had arrested 17 young men by early...

ISIS using weaponised drones to defend Syria's Tabqa

ISIS is using weaponised drones to hold off U.S.-backed forces advancing in a key Syrian town, activists said Wednesday, a tactic the extremists have also used in neighbouring Iraq. With air cover from the U.S.-led coalition, the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) were locked in clashes inside...

Revolution spirit fades in Latakia due to regime suppression

By Abdulsalm Haj Bakri (Zaman Al Wasl)- rebels of coastal city of Latakia who joined the Syrian revolution in first months or eruption and went out for demonstrations demanding for democracy and dignity, are now either fighters in the countryside of the city, or suppressed in the city, or...

Rush hour on Mosul's 'displacement highway'

On west Mosul's Baghdad street, thousands of displaced Iraqis flee the fighting with their meagre belongings but similar numbers walk in the other direction, heading straight back into the war-torn city. The street is currently the main corridor for civilians fleeing the battle between the...