Islamic State has lost swathes of Syrian territory to separate campaigns being waged by Syrian government forces backed by Russia and Iran, and by the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic (SDF ...

On Saturday, Syrian rebels reportedly captured at least 11 villages in the countryside around Hama, where Syrian government forces were stationed, the war monitor said.

“It was the battle for liberation. Now it’s a battle for purification (of Syria),” a narrator accompanying the armed convoys says. It’s unclear when exactly the video was filmed. “To the Alawites, ...