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UN-backed Syria talks restart with rebels on back foot

U.N.-brokered Syria peace talks restart in Geneva Thursday after a 10-month hiatus that has seen the opposition weakened and political upheaval in the foreign powers shaping the conflict. Since April 2016, when rival delegations were last in the Swiss city, government forces have...

170 rebel fighters evacuated from Damascus suburbs to Idlib

(Zaman al-Wasl)- 170 rebel fighters on Monday have evacuated the mountainous town of Sargaya at the Lebanese border to northern Idlib province due to a Russian-brokered deal with the Syrian regime, activists said. The regime prepared several buses to transport around 170 fighters with their...

Four Russian military dead in Syria IED blast

Four Russian military personnel were killed and two injured when their vehicle was targeted with explosives in central Syria last week, a defence ministry statement quoted by Russian agencies said Monday. "Four Russian servicemen died when their car exploded on a radio-controlled IED on...