U.S.-backed Syrian militias are expected to attack soon an Islamic State-held dam and air base west of the Syrian city of Raqqa, their spokesman said on Thursday, part of an accelerating campaign to capture the hardline group's stronghold. The U.S.-led coalition against Islamic State...

(Middle East Eye)- In an aging hotel outside the town of Mytilini, Mohammed wearily waits with his younger brother and their two heavily pregnant wives for updates on their asylum cases.  The group fled the violence in Sukhna, their remote desert hometown in eastern Syria - where...

Russia's force in Syria has suffered losses since late January more than three times higher than the official toll, according to evidence gathered by Reuters, a tally that shows the fight in Syria is tougher and more costly than the Kremlin has disclosed. Eighteen Russian citizens fighting...

(Zaman al-Wasl)- Syrian activists criticized the absence of Jaish al-Islam, key rebel unit in Eastern Ghouta, from the ongoing battles east of the capital. The powerful Islam Army is considered the largest military force of the Syrian resistance in the countryside of Damascus and the largest...