( Rudaw )- Kurdish forces claim they have seized strategic areas of Hasaka amidst reports of poisonous gas attacks by ISIS in the violently contested city.   The Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) claimed they took control of the crossroads at Nashwa in Hasaka this afternoon,...

Syrian rebels on Wednesday took two checkpoints in Zabadani city after fierce clashes with Syrian regime army and its allied Shiite militia Hezbollah, activists told Zaman al-Wasl. Activist Anas al-Qalamouni said rebels had seized control of al-Moura and al-Karazat checkpoints as well...

Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu rejected accusations Turkey had in the past tacitly supported Islamic State militants operating from Syria and had unwittingly opened the door to a suicide bombing that killed at least 32 people. The blast on Monday tore through a group of...

  A key rebel unit in Southern Front on Monday has recaptured a hill in eastern countryside of Daraa was seized by Syrian regime forces the day before, Zaman al-Wasl Arabic reported. The First Army, or al-Jaysh al-Awal, has recaptured Tel al-Sheikh Hussein and other military posts on...