Civilians in besieged eastern parts of Aleppo are impatiently waiting to vacate the city amid persistent attacks by the Assad regime and allied militias backed by Iran, according to local sources. On Wednesday, armed Syrian opposition groups lost control of eastern Aleppo’s Bab al-Nairab...

With ISIS's "caliphate" seemingly nearing its downfall in Iraq, the country's security agencies are preparing for a different fight against the militants, shifting away from ground offensives to a focus on intelligence work, surgical airstrikes and a higher level of cooperation with the West....

(Middle East Eye)- Sasha Naffaa knows how lonely it can be to leave your friends behind when you move to a new country. That’s why the fourth grader hopes a stuffed animal, designed specifically to welcome Syrian refugee children to Canada, can help ease their difficult transition....

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Head of the Political Office of Thuwar al-Raqqa Front Mahmoud al-Hadi said Wednesday the tribesmen group will lead the battle against ISIS to expel it from the center of the province which ISIS controls since January 2014. Al-Hadi clarified in a statement to Zaman al-Wasl...