The next round of talks between Russia, Turkey and Iran on settling the Syrian civil conflict has been pushed back from late August to mid-September, Kazakh Foreign Minister Kairat Abdrakhmanov said Tuesday. Kazakhstan hosts the talks which have in the past few months focused on establishing...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Jihadist fighters blamed Ahmad Wahid al-Abd, the Islamic State jurist and the head of a group of Islamic State fighters who recently surrendered himself to the Hezbollah militia, for losing rebel strongholds at the Syrian-Lebanese border.  In an exclusive...

Russia on Monday hailed what it said was "a dramatic shift" in the Syria conflict, saying that the Syrian army, with Moscow's help, was well on its way to pushing militants out of the central part of the country. In a statement from the Russian Defence Ministry, Colonel-General Sergei...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 40 people have been killed in deadly U.S. airstrikes on Raqqa city, local activists said on Monday as more than 40,000 people still trapped by aerial and ground bombing. Raqqa-based activist Ahmed Shalabi said the U.S.-led airstrikes, in support of Kurdish-led...