Syrian government forces have tightened a three-year siege on two rebel-held suburbs southwest of Damascus by capturing land between the two and choking off their supply route, state media, a monitoring group and a rebel spokesman said on Saturday. The suburbs of Daraya and Mouadamiya were...

The head of Iran's elite Revolutionary Guard said on Saturday Saudi Arabia lacked the courage to go through with a plan to send ground troops to Syria, and warned they would be wiped out if they went in. Mohammad Ali Jafari's blunt words on the Fars news agency were Iran's first...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Iran’s media outlets mourned Saturday 3 Revolutionary Guards fighters said they were killed in northern Aleppo province defending Shiite villages as death toll rises to 165 in four months since Russia began its air strikes, activists said. The Russian bombing on Wednesday...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- An official letter addressed by the governor of coastal Tartus province to government's institutions has called on all employees in the predominantly Alawite governorate to follow military training to join regime army when it needed. Safwan Abu Saadi, in an official...