(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian rebels on Friday thwarted regime attack on the mountainous Jabal al-Akrad area in Latakia province, activists said. The regime forces backed by Shiite militias launched attacks on al-Tuffahiya hilltop, taking advantage of discorded between main Syria's armed...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- ISIS militants have destroyed the historic Tetrapylon and severely destroyed the Roman Theatre in Palmyra, the UNESCO World Heritage site since 1980, residents told Zaman al-Wasl. Local sources in Palmyra reported to Zaman al-Wasl that the Islamic State (ISIS) has lately...

Russia and Syria have signed an agreement on expanding and modernizing Russia's Tartous naval base in Syria, a Russian government document showed. The agreement envisages that 11 Russian warships can be located in the Tartous base at one time, the document showed....

The destruction by ISIS extremists of two key cultural sites in Syria's ancient city of Palmyra is a "war crime", UNESCO said Friday. "This destruction is a new war crime and an immense loss for the Syrian people and for humanity," Irina Bokova, director general of the U.N. cultural agency,...