(Washington Post)- Sitting 7,000 miles from the fuss and frills of Sunday's Academy Awards, it was Raed Saleh, dressed in a simple T-shirt, who delivered one of the most powerful messages of the night. In a short acceptance speech — posted online after a documentary about his Syrian...

(Zaman Al Wasl) Regime army and auxiliary forces have reached taken control of the town of Jab al-Khafi in Aleppo’s eastern countryside. The move brings them in direct contact with the Kurdish People’s Protection Units in Aleppo’s countryside. The regime takeover comes as part of a...

(Bloomberg)- A new military strategy to meet President Donald Trump's demand to "obliterate" the Islamic State group is likely to deepen U.S. military involvement in Syria, possibly with more ground troops, even as the current U.S. approach in Iraq appears to be working and will require fewer...

In the days before the Islamic State group's Syrian bastion Al-Bab fell, Umm Abdo's family sheltered underground both from the bombing and from jihadists themselves looking for somewhere to hide. In a narrow rubbish-strewn street lined with broken and blackened stalls, the 30-year-old mother...