U.S.-backed fighters in Syria have captured a senior Daesh (ISIS) leader who served as an assistant to the group's self-declared "caliph" Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, they said Friday. The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), a Kurdish-led militia alliance that holds the quarter of Syria east of...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- People of rebel-held areas in northern Syria  came out to streets   to rally against the regime in spite of a fragile buffer zone deal and the heavy bombardment. As every Friday for the past 14 weeks, demonstrators held up the three-star flag of the Syrian...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime artillery overnight pounded most of rebel-held areas in northern Syria, where Russia and Turkey agreed on a buffer zone in September, such an escalation followed the Israeli airstrikes on an Iranian site south of Damascus, local activists said. The heavy...

 THE Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said air strikes by the U.S.-led coalition against Islamic State in eastern Syria this week killed dozens of people in the jihadist group's last major foothold. The coalition could not immediately be reached for comment on the report. Syrian...