The U.S.-led coalition fighting Islamic State aims this year to recapture Iraq’s second city Mosul, working with Iraqi government forces, and drive the jihadis out of Raqqa, their stronghold in northeast Syria, Arab and Western officials say. If it succeeds, the coalition will...

Russian President Vladimir Putin is undermining international efforts to end the Syrian civil war by bombing opponents of Islamic State in an attempt to bolster Bashar al-Assad, British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond said on Monday. In a clear sign of frustration with the Kremlin, Hammond...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime troops and allied fighters captured two villages in the northern countryside of Aleppo on Monday, putting a key supply route used by opposition forces into firing range, according to Reuters. Rebels said the offensive was being conducted with massive Russian air...

  (Zaman Al Wasl)- Five rebel groups in central provinces of Homs and Hama have formed joint operations room to fight regime troops who wage major attack on the southern countryside of Hama, activists said on Monday.   For over a month, regime forces backed by Russian jets have been...