(Zaman Alwasl)- Unknown armed group has kidnapped Captain Basil Zammo near Bab al-Hawa border crossing with Turkey, source told Zaman Alwasl. The senior rebel commander in coastal area was heading Turkey in logistic tour. A day ago,...

BEIRUT (AFP) - The jihadist Islamic State (IS) has taken over a string of towns and cities in Syria's oil-rich province of Deir Ezzor and now also controls most of the countryside, a monitor said Thursday.   The province, which abuts Iraq, forms part of the IS's...

(Reporting by Cham Mohamed; Translation by Yusar Ahmed) Opposition’s fighting battalions arrested in Jobar front a Syrian young man called Rami al-Sha’ar, from Salihiya neighborhood in Damascus, during his fighting with Aba al-Fadel al-Abbas...

GIOIA TAURO, Italy (AP) — Cargo containers carrying hundreds of tons of Syrian chemical weapons were loaded onto a U.S. cargo ship Wednesday for destruction at sea, one of the final phases of the international effort to rid Syria of its chemical weapon stockpile. The chemicals...