(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 26 people killed on Tuesday in the US-led coalition airstrikes on Raqqa city as fall of the de facto capital of the Islamic State seemed to be imminent, local monitoring groups said. Raqqa Is Being Slaughtered Silently reported that 16 civilians mostly women...

 Moscow accused the US on Tuesday of reducing air strikes against the Islamic State group in Iraq to let jihadists into Syria and fight the Russian-backed Syrian army, claims the Pentagon denied. Russian military spokesman Igor Konashenkov said the Syrian regime was attempting to...

 A Sukhoi military jet crashed while trying to take off from Russia's Hmeimim base in Syria on Tuesday, killing the crew, Russian news agencies quoted a military spokesman as saying. "The Su-24 plane rolled off the runway and broke up while accelerating for takeoff... The plane's...

US-backed fighters say they are nearing the "final week" of their assault to drive Daesh (ISIS) from their one-time Syrian bastion Raqqa, as the extremists' self-described caliphate crumbles. Losing Raqqa would be only the latest in a series of crushing defeats for the extremist group,...