Germany has a special intermediary role allowing it to keep open the window for dialogue with Russia on the Syrian crisis, German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas said Tuesday. At a Berlin news conference alongside Canadian Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland, Maas also said the stalled...

A false alarm led to Syrian air defense missiles being fired overnight and there was no fresh attack on Syria, a commander in the regional military alliance that backs the Syrian government told Reuters. Syrian state TV reported overnight that anti-aircraft defenses had shot down...

   (Zaman Al Wasl)- Four people, including a child, were killed and 50 were wounded by an improvised explosive device rocked a demonstration condemning the US-French-British airstrikes in northeastern city of Raqqa, local activists said Monday. No rebel group claimed the...

The Pentagon on Monday denied any involvement in an attack on a Syrian air base outside Homs city, not far from where U.S., U.K. and French missiles struck early Saturday morning.  “There are no US or Coalition operations in that area [Homs]. We don’t have anything additional...