The opposition-held sector of Syria's divided city of Aleppo has been cut off from the outside world in recent days by an escalation of air and artillery strikes on the only road in, putting hundreds of thousands of people under effective siege. A government campaign to fully capture...

The U.S.-led coalition fighting ISIS in Syria may have accidentally hit allied rebels during an air strike at the end of last month, a U.S. military spokesman said Saturday. Coalition forces carried out three airstrikes against tactical ISIS units and vehicles near Maara on May 28, Centcom...

Translation by Rana Abdul (Zaman Al Wasl)- Clashes re-erupted between Islamic State on the one hand and US-backed Kurdish Syria Democratic Forces (SDF) and Elite Forces on the other during the past two days in the southern countryside of Hasaka Province. Activist Malaz al-Yoused said the...

A double bomb attack outside a Shiite shrine near Syria's capital killed at least 20 people Saturday, in the latest in repeated deadly strikes on the revered site, state media said. The official SANA news agency said a suicide bomber and a car bomb struck at the entrance to the Sayyida Zeinab...