A senior adviser to Iran's parliament speaker on Sunday denied reports about reaching an agreement with Russia on the removal of Bashar al-Assad from power in Syria. In a tweet, Hossein Amir-Abdollahian described al-Assad as "the legitimate president of Syria." "Report of a deal between...

Seven members of the Daesh group escaped from a small prison in northeast Syria Sunday, with four recaptured and a search continuing for the remaining three, said Syrian state media and an official with the main Kurdish-led U.S.-backed force in the region. The militants fled from a jail on...

Late-night strikes on a position held by Iranian militias and their allies in eastern Syria killed seven fighters, a war monitor said Sunday. It was not immediately clear who carried out the strikes on "a base" controlled by Iranian forces and their proxies near the Syrian-Iraqi border town...

Syrian tycoon Rami Makhlouf said Sunday that authorities had set a deadline for him to resign from the country's leading mobile operator Syriatel or it would revoke the company's license, but that he would not step down. In a video, the third the businessmen has issued bringing into the...