Russian President Vladimir Putin says a chemical attack in Syria was a provocation against Syrian President Bashar Assad. Speaking at an economic forum in St. Petersburg on Friday, Putin strongly reaffirmed Russia's view that Assad's forces weren't responsible for a fatal chemical attack in...

Syria is unlikely to see a major "Marshall Plan" for reconstruction as peace remains elusive despite hundreds of thousands more civilians possibly returning to their homes, the International Committee of the Red Cross said on Friday. ICRC President Peter Maurer, speaking after his fifth...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 52 regime troops, including 11 officers, from coastal Tartus province were killed in May by rebels and the Islamic State, regime news feeds said.   Residents of Tartus, the regime's powerful militant supplier, say no men left in the city. Funerals are...

By Abdul Salam Haj Bakri (Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian military police have arrested 173 young men using fake security identities to escape conscription and to cross the countless army checkpoints easily, father of one of the detainees told Zaman al-Wasl. Abu Rasheed said he paid $2000 to an...