Bashar Assad said Sunday that the Russian-Turkish deal to avert a military offensive in the northwestern province of Idlib is a "temporary one" that prevented bloodshed but that his regime's goal is to restore control over all of Syria. His comments were made during a meeting of the...

The withdrawal by rebels of their heavy weapons from a planned buffer zone in northwestern Syria is due to last several days, a Turkish-backed alliance of fighters said Sunday. The National Liberation Front (NLF) announced Saturday that it has begun withdrawing heavy arms from the zone...

A new report by the Syrian Network for Human Rights revealed that Syrian regime forces had used 26,577 barrel bombs since the start of the Russian intervention on September 30, 2015. Barrel bombs have been one of the most-used improvised weapons since March 2011. The first documented...

(Zmaan Al Wasl)- A well-informed military source said Russia had stationed the S-300 surface-to-air missile system in an air defense battalion in Tartus province, where Syrian officers are not allowed to operate the system now in the near future. Four Antonov An-124 Ruslan aircrafts...