Syrian regime forces and allies including Lebanese Hezbollah fighters seized an extensive area southeast of Damascus from rebels on Thursday and fought other insurgents near a highway leading southwest, a monitoring group said. The advance is part of a wider escalation in...

Translation by Rana Abdul (Zaman Al Wasl)- Intensive and strange aircraft movement has been ongoing for a month in Hemeimem military airport, the main Russian forces stronghold in Syria, a source said from the coastal city of Jableh. The source told Zaman al-Wasl that different civil...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Five people from the besieged al-Waer neighborhood in Homs city were wounded on Wednesday when regime snipers opened fire on a crowd queuing for bread, activists said. The severe siege pushed tens of al-Waer residents to cross regime's checkpoints to buy bread and basic needs...

  U.S. President Barack Obama spoke by telephone on Wednesday with Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan about the war in Syria and efforts to defeat Islamic State militants, the White House said in a statement. Obama noted the importance of international cooperation to maintain the...