(Reporting by Sarah Abdul Hai; Translation by Yusra Ahmed) Abductions' news is the most prominent these days in Sweida province. The Western and Western North are the regions with highest incidence of abduction; most of them have financial blackmailing...

(Reuters) - Jordan's air force shot down an unidentified drone near the north-eastern border with Syria on Friday, a government spokesman said, the first such event announced by authorities since Syria's crisis began in 2011. Mohammad al-Momani told Reuters the "aerial target was...

  The Islamic State group has taken full control of Division 17, the last stronghold of Bashar al-Assad’s forces in the eastern province of Raqqa, sources and media activists reported on Thursday. Normal 0...

(Translation by Dani Murad) (Zaman Alwasl)- While Assad’s regime is preoccupied in bombing civilians and fighting rebels to lay the foundations of its rule and setting things in his favor, and as its security services are arresting whoever has the...