(Zaman Al Wasl)- A group of engineers who formerly worked on the Euphrates Dam warned that the continued military operations in the areas surrounding the Dam close to al-Tabqa city is preventing technical crews from reaching the dam to fix the damages to avoid its collapse. The engineers...

The Syrian opposition and a senior Russian diplomat agreed on Wednesday that Syria's fragile ceasefire needed to be shored up amid growing violations in the multi-sided civil war. Preserving the cessation of hostilities in place between the Russian-backed Syrian government and rebels...

(Wall Street Journal)- Hundreds of Islamic State loyalists in recent days have fled the group’s de facto Syrian capital of Raqqa, where emptying streets and a lack of water and electricity point to the extremists’ crumbling control. Raqqa residents said Islamic State’s feared religious...

(Al-Monitor)- As Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was declaring in February that after taking over al-Bab, Turkey would proceed to Manbij and then to Raqqa, Al-Monitor was meeting in Manbij with Adnan Abu Amjad, general commander of the Manbij Military Council. The day of the meeting,...