U.S.-backed militias said they had launched their final assault on Syria’s Raqqa on Sunday after a convoy of Islamic State fighters left the city, leaving only a hardcore of jihadists to mount a last stand. “The battle will continue until the whole city is clean,” said a statement...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- U.S.-backed Kurdish militias seized 8 villages from the Islamic State near Markada town, the last ISIS stronghold in Hasaka province, local activists said on Sunday. Abdulmalek al-Ali said the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) had captured the town of al-Hasain in the...

The Turkish army is expanding its deployment in northwest Syria with the goal of encircling a Kurdish enclave and reining in Russian strikes in the Idlib border province under a deal to reduce clashes, rebels and witnesses said on Sunday. A convoy of Turkish army troops entered Syria...

Syrian regime and allied forces have taken the eastern town of al-Mayadeen from Islamic State, a Syrian military source said on Saturday, further weakening the militants' diminishing presence in Syria. Al-Mayadeen, near the Iraqi border in Deir al Zor province, had become a major base...