MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia, Turkey and Iran need to help Syria’s government clear its country of terrorists, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Saturday. He was speaking at a meeting in Moscow with his counterparts from Turkey and Iran.

Syrian regime airstrikes and shelling killed 17 civilians including seven children Friday in the Palestinian camp of Yarmouk in southern Damascus, a Britain-based activist group said. Government forces have pounded southern districts of the capital since April 19 to try to expel Daesh (ISIS)...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 20 people, including commanders, activists and army defectors, have been killed in the past 48 hours by assailants in the northern province of Idlib, local reporter said Friday. Medics told Zaman al-Wasl that five civilians were killed by an improvised...

Syrian regime forces Friday advanced against Daesh (ISIS) militants in the south of Damascus, state media said, after more than a week of bombardment on the area. "Army units backed by the air force and artillery have advanced on numerous axes" in southern Damascus, including the...