A drone strike as part of a U.S.-led campaign against Islamic State militants killed a senior figure from the hardline group in its Syrian stronghold Raqqa city, Reuters reported on Wednesday. The strike killed an Uzbek leader of the group involved in security as he sat in a...

( Syria Direct )- More than 50 regime barrel-bomb and conventional airstrikes pummeled rebel-held villages in Daraa province Tuesday after the launch of a renewed Southern Storm rebel offensive to wrest the provincial capital from regime control one day before, reported the pro-opposition “We...

Syrian rebels in control of the spring that provides most of Damascus’s drinking water have threatened to shut off pipelines to the capital if the regime and Hezbollah continue their offensive in Zabadani. Pro-regime daily Al-Akhbar highlighted the danger on Tuesday, writing that “feelings...

Two deadly car bombs hit the capital Sanaa and a southern city in Yemen on Tuesday, state news agency Saba reported, a day after air strike and clashes killed almost 200 people nationwide. Islamic State in Yemen claimed responsibility in a statement posted online for the Sanaa...