A Syrian Kurdish militia said on Monday it was in near full control of the northeastern city of Hasaka, expanding its sway at the expense of the Damascus government in the wake of an Islamic State attack in the area. Full control of Hasaka - which was split between the Kurds and...

  A key rebel unit in Southern Front on Monday has recaptured a hill in eastern countryside of Daraa was seized by Syrian regime forces the day before, Zaman al-Wasl Arabic reported. The First Army, or al-Jaysh al-Awal, has recaptured Tel al-Sheikh Hussein and other military posts on...

 One senior Tunisian Islamic State leader alongside five other foreign jihadists were killed in an air strike near the northeastern city of Hasaka, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported on Monday. The Observatory, which gathers its information from an activist network on the...

Syria's army said on Sunday it had stepped up air strikes and retaken villages in a new offensive on Islamist insurgents in areas close to President Bashar al Assad's ancestral homeland in the coastal province of Latakia. Aerial bombardment had intensified over the past 48 hours...