Air strikes targeting positions of Iran-backed militias in eastern Syria killed nine fighters Sunday in the second such raid in 24 hours, a war monitor said. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Israel was "likely responsible" for the strikes near the Iraqi...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syria's Bashar al-Assad backed by Russian Intelligence reports has dismantled an espionage network, including top security and army officers, a-well-informed source told Zaman al-Wasl Saturday. Maj. General Ma'an Hussein, one of Assad's top aides and the head of the...

  Six pro-Iranian fighters were killed late Saturday during alleged Israeli air strikes targeting positions belonging to regime forces and Tehran-backed militias in eastern Deir Ezzor province, a war monitor said. Four Syrian nationals were among those killed in the raids on the...

Years of violence in Syria's last major opposition bastion has created a landscape of ruin, eerily lit in the early hours of Saturday by the Milky Way in the night sky. Over the bombed-out town of Ariha in Idlib province, the stars looked like specks of dust shining over the town's...