Russia is to send 175 de-mining engineers to defuse mines in Syria’s Deir al-Zor, Interfax news agency quoted Russia’s Defence Ministry as saying on Monday. The first detachment of 40 de-miners has already been deployed to Russia’s Hmeimim air base in Syria, the ministry said....

 Syrian regime forces and U.S.-backed militias converged on Islamic State in separate offensives against the militants in the eastern Syrian province of Deir al-Zor on Sunday. The U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces alliance of mostly Kurdish and Arab militias (SDF) said it had...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime warplanes on Sunday struck rebel bastions in the Eastern Qalamoun region  in spite of the newly-reached ceasefire deal, local activists said. The raids targeted al-Bitra region in the eastern mountains of Qalamoun, 60 km (40 miles...

German authorities believe Daesh (ISIS) holds some 11,100 blank Syrian passports that can be completed with any individual's details, weekly newspaper Bild am Sonntag reported Sunday. Investigators have assembled a list of serial numbers of the blank passports and the authorities that...