Russia has made clear to Western nations that it has no objection to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad stepping down as part of a peace process, in a softening of its publicly stated staunch backing of Assad ahead of talks in New York, diplomats said. Russia, like Iran, has been...

The five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council were struggling to agree on a draft resolution endorsing an international bid to end the five-year-old civil war in Syria ahead of ministerial talks taking place in New York on Friday. The U.S. ambassador to the United Nations,...

The Russian Defense Ministry said late on Thursday that senior British military officials had met with their Russian counterparts in Moscow to discuss how best to avoid incidents between the two countries' armed forces at sea and in the air. Britain has complained of increasingly having to...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Powerful Syrian rebel group, Ahrar al-Sham movement, has mourned Thursday one of its senior commanders who has been killed in the southern countryside of Aleppo. Muthar Abdul Salam Hamdoun, also known as Abu Abdul Salam al-Sham, has lost his life in the ongoing battles with...