(Zaman Al Wasl)- 8 unknown armed men on Monday have kidnapped Ya'qub al-Ammar, the head of Daraa council in the western countryside of the southern province, according to statement posted online. Al-Ammar, head of Daraa governorate council, was kidnapped in the road links between Mzairib town...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- ISIS fighters have recaptured early Monday three border towns with Turkey were under control of the Syrian rebels, Zaman Al Wasl local reporter said. ISIS took towns Dwaidan, Qarah Qweeri and Ghazel in the northern countryside. Omar Kassouma, military commander of Sultan...

Syria's opposition has yet to reach a consensus on a list of its delegates who will lead negotiations with the central government, Interfax news agency on Monday quoted Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov as saying. The Syrian government, meanwhile, was ready for the talks, Lavrov said.

At least 32 people were killed and 90 wounded in two bomb explosions in the Syrian city of Homs on Monday, monitoring group the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. The blasts, one from a car bomb and another from a suicide attack, struck the Zahra district in the middle of the city, said...