A top Syrian official says the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons refused to visit key sites linked to a nerve gas attack, casting doubt on the international monitor's credibility. Syrian Deputy Foreign Minister Faisal Mekdad dismissed an OPCW report released last week...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 16 civilians were killed in southern Sweida province when Russian warplanes struck a border village with Jordan, spokesman for a U.S.-backed group said. Saad al-Haj, spokeman for Osoud al-Shariqiya, formed by tribesmen in eastern Qalamoun, said the strikes hit...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- A Syrian military helicopter has been destroyed and four soldiers have been killed by the Islamic State in eastern Deir Ezzor province, Russian Sputnik agency said Sunday.   The helicopter that landed in an army base to deliver food rations to regime forces was a...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The villages of Kafarya and al-Fu’ah occasionally witness the pro-Assad militias burning the villages’ fruit trees and bulldozing agricultural land in the two towns or at the front lines. Villagers in nearby Binesh, also hear the sound of massive explosions coming from the...