(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least two Syrian refugee children have died on Friday due to a fire broke out in Derik camp near Turkish Mardin city, spokesman of the Syrian Association for Refugee Affairs said. Mudar al-Asaad told Zaman al-Wasl that many suffocation cases reported, three of them...

Syrian state TV has said that the army recaptured major parts of the historic and strategic city of Palmyra as battles rage between Syrian army troops and the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) fighters. Syria's state news agency, SANA, reported on Friday that the army, backed by...

A senior Islamic State commander was targeted and likely killed in a U.S. operation, a U.S. official told Reuters on Friday, speaking on condition of anonymity. News of the operation comes just ahead of a Pentagon briefing scheduled for 10:45 a.m.. Defense Secretary Ash Carter is expected to...

A Russian special forces officer has been killed in a combat operation near Palmyra in Syria, Interfax news agency reported on Thursday, citing a Russian military source in Syria. "While performing a special task to direct Russian air strikes onto terrorist targets, a Russian...