(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 160 officers and soldiers from Homs, Latakia and Hama provinces were killed last June in clashes with the Islamic State and rebels, pro-regime media outlets said. The death toll included 39 officers who mostly killed by ISIS in the Syrian desert, also known as Badiya,...

President Bashar al-Assad has appeared on the Syrian currency for the first time, his portrait printed on a new 2,000-pound banknote that went into circulation on Sunday. Central bank governor Duraid Durgham said the 2,000-pound note was one of several new notes printed years ago but the...

At least 19 people have been killed after a suicide bombing struck an eastern district of Damascus, according to a Syrian state television report. It said security forces intercepted three suicide car bombers on Sunday morning, blowing up two at the entrance to the city. The third was able to...

(Zaman Al Wasl)-  Two top army officers killed in an explosive device planted by the Islamic State in the eastern countryside of Aleppo province on Saturday, pro-regime media outlets said. M. General Wahib Sakr and his fellow Ghassan Rached along with an officer and driver were killed...