Cement group LafargeHolcim says its chief executive officer is resigning, weeks after the multinational acknowledged that its branch in northern Syria had struck deals with armed groups so that it could keep business there running. The resignation of Eric Olsen is effective July 15, the...

Britain's former ambassador to Syria who defended President Bashar al-Assad had already accepted a senior position in a lobby group run by the dictator's father-in-law, The Telegraph reported. Peter Ford had sparked outrage earlier this month when he claimed in a BBC interview that Assad would...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- The Islamic State on Sunday launched counterattack on the U.S.-led forces near Tabqa city, taking advantage of a sand storm sweeping the northeastern province of Raqqa. ISIS fighters attacked bastions of the Syrian Democratic Forces in the villages of Ayed al-Kabir,...

 (Zaman Al Wasl0 At least 16 officers and soldiers from from Bashar al-Assad's hometown of Qardaha in coastal Latakia province have been killed in April, local activists said. The death toll included 8 officers who were killed throughout Syria. Qardaha Newspaper has mourned 40...