Iran asserted Monday it will keep its military forces in Syria at the request of the Syrian regime.   “Should the Syrians want us, we will continue to be there,” Foreign Ministry spokesman Bahram Qasemi told a press conference in Tehran cited by the official IRNA news agency....

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The U.S.-backed Syrian forces pressed new advances against Daesh in Deir Ezzor province, on Sunday, activists said. The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), backed by the U.S. and French artillery have seized strategic hilltop near al-Hajeen town, the key stronghold of...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- A mass food poisoning at a camp for displaced people near the northern city of Idlib has sickened tens of people, medics told Zaman al-Wasl on Sunday. Dr. Jamal Abu Mahmoud said 154 people, including 80 children, took ill in the village of al-Ghadfa in the southern...

A war monitor said buses evacuated Islamic State fighters from an enclave south of Damascus on Sunday in a withdrawal deal, though state media denied the report and said the Syrian army was fighting to finish off the insurgents. The recovery of the enclave south of Damascus will mark...