Terrified families waved white flags as they emerged from homes reduced to rubble in the Iraqi city of Ramadi, where government troops were still battling Islamic State fighters holed up on Friday, five days after the army recaptured the city center. The provincial capital in the fertile...

A U.S.-backed alliance of Syrian Kurdish and Arab fighters advanced against Islamist insurgents in the north of the country on Friday, capturing at least one village in Aleppo province, a spokesman and a monitoring group said. Fighters from the Democratic Forces of Syria seized the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Two rebel fighters killed Wednesday in al-Waer neighborhood of the central city of Homs, in the first breach of the U.N.-brokered ceasefire reached early December, local activist said. Hassan al-Asmar, al-Waer-based activist, said Shiite popular committees had opened fire on...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Pro-regime social media activists have mourned 20 regime army troops said they had been killed on Wednesday in Sheikh Miskeen town in the southern province of Daraa, including Lieutenant Colonel Hassan Al Ali, the commander of the military campaign with 5 more officers. Syrian...