Syrian regime forces bombed late Sunday a desert area under the control of the Islamic State (IS) jihadist group near the province of Sweida in southern Syria, a war monitor said. "The bombing and fighting between the regime forces and IS have intensified during the evening and are...

The head of a Syrian research facility that Western countries say was part of a chemical weapons program was killed when his car was blown up, the pro-Syrian government newspaper al-Watan said Sunday. Aziz Asber was the director of the Syrian Scientific Research Centre in Masyaf, near...

Daesh (ISIS) has executed one of dozens of Druze hostages abducted from southern province of Swaida last week, a journalist in the area and an activist group said Sunday. Daesh killed the 19-year-old male student Thursday after kidnapping more than 30 people, mostly women and children,...

U.N. peacekeepers returned Thursday for the first time in years to the frontier between Syria and the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, conducting joint patrols with Russian military police in a reflection of Moscow's deepening role in mediating between the decades-old foes in the volatile...