(Reuters) - Syrian government forces struck Islamic State positions in and around the eastern Syrian city of Raqqa, residents said on Monday, part of a growing campaign against hardline militants who control a third of the country. Raqqa is a major stronghold of the Islamic...

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SWEIDA (Zaman Alwasl) - Syrian regime refused to arm Druze sect in their southern province over recent skirmishes with al-Qaeda group and Bedouin, saying 'civilians’ arming is disaster', Zaman Al Wasl source quoted Druze cleric as saying. Last...

  (Zaman Alwasl)- Radical Islamic State group on Sunday have beheaded top Syrian army defectors in al-Tabqa near Raqqa. General Mahmoud Shlash, 55, former head of Southern region in Syrian Army were beheaded by IS fighters, activists said....

Reporting by Abdullah Raja   (Zaman Alwasl)- Syrians abroad face a travel ban to Jakarta imposed by Syrian intelligence as the Indonesians embassies require an approval from regime authorities in Damascus. Indonesian diplomatic...

TOKYO (AP) — Japan is looking into reports that a Japanese man may have been detained possibly by militants in Syria, the foreign ministry said Monday. The government was still trying to confirm through the Japanese embassy in Damascus the reports that surfaced over the weekend,...

BEIRUT (Reuters) - Forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad hammered the eastern Syrian city of Raqqa with more than two dozen air strikes on Sunday, targeting areas controlled by the Islamic State militant group, a monitoring group said. The Syrian Observatory for Human...

Mortar shells killed a Saudi man in the Syrian city of Aleppo last Wednesday after his father and brother both died fighting in the country last year. Miteb Fayiz Miteb Al-Hamdan Al-Sarhani, believed to be in his 20s and from Sakaka in Al-Jouf province, went to Syria last...

( New York Post )-  Robin Williams has inspired Syrian rebels fighting both the Assad government and the Islamic extremists establishing a repressive religious regime across a wide swath of Syria and Iraq. A photograph emerged Saturday showing a group in Kafranbel,...

(AFP)- At least 31 Islamic State militants were killed in Syrian air force raids Sunday in the northern province of Raqa, a stronghold of the jihadist fighters, a monitoring group said. "The regime carried out 13 raids on the city of Raqa and 11 on the town of Tabqa in Raqa...

(Editorial by Fathi Ibrahim Bayoud Al Tamimi; Translation by Dani Murad) (Zaman Al Wasl)- As an expatriate, I came at the age of two with my mother and sister to Saudi Arabia in 1982, where my father used to work in the "Carpentry Concrete",...

SWEIDA (Zaman Alwasl)- At least 15 people, including 7 Druze clerics, were killed and dozens wounded on Saturday when al-Qaeda-linked group backed with tribes’ fighters stormed Deir Dama village near Sweida city, activists said. Zaman Alwasl reporter...

(Zaman Alwasl)- 'No negotiations took place between Radical Islamic State group and rebel factions in Aleppo province,' a rebel commander in West-backed Free Syrian Army said. Abu al-Waleed (Nom de guerre) says to Zaman Alwasl that IS has no...

    SWEIDA (Zaman Alwasl)- At least 15 people, including 7 Druze clerics, were killed and dozens wounded on Saturday when al-Qaeda-linked group backed with tribes’ fighters stormed Deir Dama village near Sweida city, activists said. Zaman...

(Reuters) - The United States on Saturday conducted air strikes in Iraq against Islamic State fighters near the Kurdish capital of Arbil and the Mosul dam, the U.S. Central Command said. The Mosul dam, Iraq's biggest, fell under control of Islamic State militants earlier this...

Islamic State jihadists have killed more than 700 members of a tribe in eastern Syria in two weeks, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Saturday. Among the members of the Shaitat tribe killed were 100 fighters, but the rest were civilians, the Britain-based...

(Al Jazeera)- Syria's opposition has called for international intervention targeting the Islamic State group, just days after the US began limited strikes against fighters from the same group in neighbouring Iraq. Earlier, US officials had asked the Syrian opposition to...

AFP- Syrian rebels on Saturday were defending Marea, one of their main strongholds in the north, against a rapid advance by Islamic State jihadists, a monitoring group and an activist said. The opposition Syrian National Council in exile called for the international community to...

United Nations, Aug 16 (IANS) The UN Security Council Friday adopted sanctions against jihadist groups in Iraq and Syria and placed six individuals affiliated to them on its Al Qaida sanctions list. "All states shall ensure that no funds, financial assets or economic resources...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Hillary Rodham Clinton's split with President Barack Obama over a foreign policy "organizing principle" isn't likely to be the last time differences emerge between the two. How she handles those breaks could be among her biggest challenges to a successful run for...