Syrian warplanes carried out air strikes on rebel-held areas in Deraa and Hama provinces and insurgents fired rockets at government targets on Thursday, the day peace talks are set to begin in Geneva, a war monitoring group said. However, the overall level of violence in western Syria was...

Fifty-six ISIS militants were killed by Turkey-backed forces around the Syrian town of al-Bab and by U.S.-led coalition airstrikes in the latest operations Wednesday, the Turkish military said Thursday. Turkish artillery fire also hit 104 ISIS targets, including buildings and bombed...

(The Sun)- AN Irish soldier went to fight in Syria with Islamic State’s “worst nightmare” after telling his bosses he was going to travel the world, it is alleged. The Dublin-based private is being investigated by the Defence Forces for joining the Kurdish YPG militia. It is...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The US-backed Syria democratic Forces took new array of villages from ISIS in the northern countryside of Raqqa on Thursday, pressing rapid advances the will encircle the group’s de facto capital in very few days. The Kurdish-led SDF seized control of  15  villages...