(Zaman Al Wasl)- About 20,000 fighters loyal to Bashar al-Assad have been mobilized in government-held area in al-Ghab Plain and Latakia province to launch major offensive on the northern city of Jisr al-Shughour, well-informed source told Zaman al-Wasl. The ongoing battles northeast Hama have...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Students in the ISIS-held neighborhoods of besieged Yarmouk camp south of Damascus can not escape the radical curriculum of the Islamic State that incites for bloodshed and brutality. ISIS has forced the teaching its curriculum in 2 schools, one on al-Oroba neighbourhood for...

Iraqi forces said they launched new assaults in Mosul's Old City on Monday after more than two weeks of only small advances and a high civilian death toll appeared to prompt a change in tactics. A March 17 explosion that killed between 60 and 240 people, according to conflicting accounts,...

Syrian rebels who drove Islamic State from the town of al-Bab in northwest Syria this year discovered an extensive network of tunnels dug by militants as part of their defenses, a tactic that has slowed the military campaign against them. "The tunnels complicated the fighting a lot and...