HAMA (Zaman Alwasl)- Activists and monitoring group have reported violent clashes between regime forces backed by National Defence Forces and Hezbollah against rebels in Hama countryside. Rebels have killed at least 10 Syrian army troops...

(Zaman Alwasl)- Islamic State fighters on Sunday have captured al-Tabqa airbase in Raqqa province after 4 days of fierce fighting with forces loyal to Bashar al-Assad, a monitoring group and pro-IS activists say. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said...

Damascus, Aug 24 (IANS) Syrian tribesmen killed 18 Islamic State (IS) fighters in the oil-rich province of Deir al-Zour in eastern Syria Saturday, media reports said. The Ukaydat tribesmen succeeded in freeing their leader Sheikh Khalil Jadan, who was kidnapped by IS fighters...

LONDON (Reuters) - Qatar condemned on Saturday the Islamic State's "barbaric" murder of U.S. journalist James Foley and flatly rejected accusations of giving financial support to the militant group. Foreign Minister Khaled al-Attiyah's comments came a day after the German...