(AFP)- The Syrian government signed a deal with a Russian firm Monday for the first phase of an irrigation project for the drought-hit northeast of the war-torn country, state media said. The project, which had been planned before the uprising against President Bashar al-Assad...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia warned the United States on Monday against stepping up support for Syria's opposition, saying it would only bolster a caliphate declared by the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in part of Iraq and Syria. Baghdad called for international...

      (Zaman Alwasl) – Wife of the first Syrian Army defectors denied opposition claims over allocating a monthly salary for her displaced family. Ghufran Hijazi wife of Lieutenant Colonel Hussein Harmoush, who still in Syrian...

(Reuters) - Militant Islamist fighters held a parade in Syria's northern Raqqa province to celebrate their declaration of an Islamic "caliphate" after the group captured territory in neighboring Iraq , a monitoring service said. The Islamic State, an al Qaeda offshoot...