The Syrian regime military has broken a siege of the eastern city of Deir al-Zour, surrounded for years by so-called Islamic State, state media say. The official Sana news agency reported that troops and allied militiamen had joined up with forces at the Brigade 137 base on the city's...

U.S.-backed Syrian militias have taken the historic old city of Raqqa and its ancient mosque as they press their offensive to defeat Islamic State, the U.S.-led coalition said on Monday. The Syrian Democratic Forces, an alliance of Kurdish and Arab militias, said last week it had...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 722 people killed in August by warring parties in Syria as the U.S.-led coalition killed more than 225 people in deadly airstrikes on ISIS-held areas in eastern Syria, the Syrian Network for Human Rights said in report .   The de-escalation zone agreements...

   (Zaman Al Wasl)- Fierce clashes between ISIS and Kurdish-led forces still underway in the last neighborhood of Raqqa's Old City as the U.S.-led airstrikes keep pounding the trapped civilians, local monitoring group said on Sunday.   Raqqa Is Being Slaughtered Silently...