(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 15 civilians, including 5children and 6 women, have lost their lives in barrel bomb attacks on rebel-held Aleppo in the first day of Eid al-Fitr, the Muslim holiday marking the end of the fasting month of Ramadan, a monitoring group said on Friday. The Syrian Network...

Cemal Dede fled his home in a remote Turkmen village in Syria after warplanes from the U.S.-led coalition against Islamic State bombed the house next door. He had no idea he wouldn't be coming back. Dede says the Kurdish YPG militia did not let his family of seven return to...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime air strikes on Thursday have killed 37 people, including 15 children, and wounded dozens across the rebel-held areas of Aleppo and Idlib, the Syrian Network for Human Rights said. The regime army helicopters dropped barrel bombs on the towns of Ma’aret Misreen,...

ISTANBUL ( McClatchyDC )- They arrived in Toyota Hilux pickup trucks, the favored vehicle of Islamist fighters in the Middle East and South Asia. But these men, the first graduates in the faltering U.S. train-and-equip program, were traveling into Syria to fight against an extremist...