The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) took control of Tel Shair hill in the Kobani city on Thursday, where severe fighting between Kurdish security forces and ISIL militants continues. “We have abandoned the Tel Shair Hill,” Faris ebu Ahmad, a commandant from...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. military forces again focused air strikes on the area near the Syrian city of Kobani in their campaign to turn back Islamic State forces and also hit oil facilities held by the militant group, the U.S. Central Command said on Thursday. A...

The army has shrunk by nearly half since Syria's conflict erupted in 2011 but experts say the remaining military force is now both more flexible and capable. It has transformed itself from a traditional military built on the former Soviet model into an effective...

Writing by Zaman Staff; Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)-Syrian doctors leave the country to work abroad, in September only, around 150 doctors of Medicine left Syria to work in Gulf countries and Europe, local medical sources revealed ....