Syrian troops and allied forces have pushed back ISIL militants and US-backed opposition fighters, gaining control of a large swath of territory in the country’s strategic southern desert, Syria media said Saturday. With the new advances, the government and allied troops secured an area nearly half the size of neighboring ...
Russian airstrikes have killed as many as 120 ISIL terrorists who were trying to flee the Takfiri outfit’s last stronghold of Raqqah in northern Syria for the ancient city of Palmyra in the central part of the Arab country, a Russian Defense Ministry source says. On Saturday, Russia’s Sputnik news ...