DAMASCUS, SYRIA (4:00 P.M.) - American and French forces began excavations in an archeological hilltop near the northern city of Raqqa, local activists reported. A local activist released a photo which

DAMASCUS, SYRIA (3:35 P.M.) - The Syrian government is mulling a complete repair process of bridges destroyed earlier by the US-led coalition on the Euphrates in eastern Syria, a Syrian top official said.

DAMASCUS, SYRIA (5:25 P.M.) - A US-backed Syrian group continues to seize more territories from the Islamic State, thus inching closer to the group's main stronghold along the Syria-Iraq borders. The

DAMASCUS, SYRIA (4:45 P.M.) - For the second day, the US-coalition bombs areas in eastern Syria for allegedly combating the Islamic State but the victims turn to be all civilians. Today, at least 10 civilians,

DAMASCUS, SYRIA (3:35 P.M.) - At least 18 people were brutally killed, scores others injured when US warplanes bombed a school used as a shelter by refugees in the southern countryside of Hasakah province.

DAMASCUS, SYRIA (3:30 P.M.) - An entire family was massacred when the US-coalition bombed a residential area in Syria's Raqqa as the city still suffers a dire humanitarian crisis under the reign of Kurdish

DAMASCUS, SYRIA (1:50 P.M.) - At least 20 civilians, mostly women and children, were killed in airstrikes conducted by US coalition during the past 24 hours against targets presumably belong to Islamic