The fate of President Bashar al-Assad will play no part in talks to end the Syrian war, the head of the government's delegation said, leading the U.N. peace envoy to warn that lack of progress on the issue could threaten a fragile cessation of hostilities. Damascus delegate...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The commander of al Qaeda's Syria branch in southern province of Daraa has been killed in the ongoing clashes with an Isis-affiliated group, local activists siad on Monday. Abu Salah al-Maslmeh, Nusra Front's commander in Daraa, was killed in clashes with Yarmouk Martyrs...

Turkish police arrested eight suspected Isis members Monday in the wake of Saturday’s suicide bombing in Istanbul, officials said. In Kilis province, five people, including two children, were arrested in Elbeyli, a town close to the Syrian border, the governor’s office said in a statement....

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime’s helicopters on Monday have dropped eight barrel bombs on the ebel-held villages in the coastal Latakia province and in the western countryside of Idlib, local activists said. The barrel-bomb attacks targeted villages of al-Najiya and Mara’nd, turning...