U.N. Special Envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura urged Russia on Wednesday to convince its ally the Syrian government of the need to clinch a peace deal to end the nearly seven-year-old war. De Mistura, speaking on Swiss television station RTS, said failure to make peace quickly through...

The United States is turning a blind eye to information provided by Russia about Syrian fighters travelling to Iraq, Russian President Vladimir Putin said Thursday. "There is no [U.S.] reaction," Putin told his annual news conference. "Why? Because they [in the U.S.] are thinking that...

(Zaman Al Wasl)-US-led coalition warplanes killed at least 20 displaced people in renewed airstrikes on last ISIS-held areas in Deir Ezzor province, local media unit said on Wednesday. Local news site Furat (Euphrates) Post reported that 20 people who fled the town of Sbaikhan and...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Three regime troops were killed when ISIS militants attacked their checkpoints in a southern suburb of Damascus  the group’s official news agency and local reporter said on Wednesday. Amaq claimed that ISIS members took buildings from regime army near...