(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...

Mounting concerns that the implementation of the U.S. Caesar  sanctions will negatively affect civilians are somewhat justified.  Loyalists and opposition alike have attacked Caesar sanctions for contributing to the deepening impoverishment of some of the Syrian people and...