BEIRUT (Reuters) - With Islamic State near defeat in Syria, Damascus is setting its sights on territory held by Kurdish-led forces including eastern oil fields, risking a new confrontation that could draw the United States in more deeply and complicate Russian diplomacy. President...

A Russian submarine Tuesday fired cruise missiles at Daesh (ISIS) targets in Syria's Deir al-Zor province, the RIA news agency cited Russia's defense ministry as saying. The submarine, "Veliky Novgorod," launched three "Kalibr" missiles from the eastern Mediterranean, the agency...

A man seized by U.S. forces in Libya accused of involvement in an attack that killed the U.S. Ambassador in Benghazi in 2012 is a Syrian who had links to the suspected ringleader, Libyan military officials said Tuesday. U.S. special forces captured Mustafa al-Imam in the past few days...

Syrian regime shelling killed four schoolchildren and a man on Tuesday in the rebel-held besieged town of Jisreen east of the capital Damascus, a Britain-based monitor said, AFP reported. "A shell fired by regime troops hit the entrance of a school in Jisreen just as children were...

Syria’s armed opposition, attending a seventh round of peace talks in the Kazakh capital Astana on Monday, presented the UN with documents about human rights violations in the war-torn country. According to an opposition source, the four dossiers included allegations about Bashar...

A convoy from the United Nations and Syrian Arab Red Crescent entered towns in the besieged Damascus suburb of eastern Ghouta on Monday, bringing aid to 40,000 people for the first time since June 2016, the United Nations said. A tightening siege by government forces has pushed people...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Most of hospitals in Eastern Ghouta suburbs are unable to secure treatment for patients suffering from malignant tumors, particularly cancer patients’ due to the blockade enforced by regime, increasing the suffering of the patients. In an exclusive statement to Zaman...

Damascus said Sunday it still considers Raqa an occupied city, less than two weeks after a US-backed alliance drove the Islamic State group out of its onetime Syrian capital. Troops loyal to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad kept out of the offensive led by the Kurdish-dominated Syrian...

Heavy clashes between the Syrian regime forces and the Islamic State group in Deir Ezzor city have killed at least 73 fighters in the last 24 hours, a monitor said Sunday. The regime army controls most of Deir Ezzor city, capital of Deir Ezzor province in the country's east, and made...

A fresh round of peace talks seeking to end Syria's war opened in the Kazakh capital Astana Monday, as part of a Moscow-led push supported by Iran and opposition backer Turkey. The latest round of talks begins days after Daesh (ISIS) was forced out of its de facto capital Raqqa in...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The first blood bank was established recently in the city of Rastan in the northern Homs region.  The bank established by individual initiatives provides blood units with various elements of plasma, red blood cells and blood platelets for the needy patients in the...

Qaryatayn, SYRIA (Reuters) - Twenty six Syrian hostages who escaped from their Islamic State captors received an emotional homecoming on Sunday in the central province of Homs, witnesses and officials said. They were among at least 70 people abducted and taken by fleeing Islamic State...

At least 11 civilians were killed and a school day violently interrupted amid intensive Syrian regime shelling of a rebel-held enclave north of the capital Damascus Sunday, sending panicked kindergarten children scurrying for shelter, opposition activists reported. The Britain-based...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- About 20 prisoners broke out of a rebel-held jail in southern Daraa province, shedding the light of the deteriorating security condition in Daraa after a series of assassinations and car bombs, local activists said on Sunday. The inmates who were charged with drug...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Lebanon has officially appointed Saad Zakhia as its ambassador to Damascus, such a move welcomed by the Syrian regime and sparked outrage of Syrian activists. Last July, The Lebanese government recommended Zakhia to be its ambassador to Syria.  The step seemed as a...

Britain Friday urged the United Nations Security Council to impose sanctions on Syria after a U.N.-led investigation found that government forces were responsible for the sarin gas attack on Khan Sheikhun. A joint U.N.-Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) panel...

 The Syrian government rejected a report sent to the U.N. Security Council that blamed it for a chemical attack on the opposition-held town of Khan Sheikhoun in April in which dozens of people were killed, state media said on Friday. “Syria rejects in form and substance what was...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- U.S.-backed Kurdish militias on Friday have handed over the Meng military airport in northern Aleppo province to the Russian military, local sources said. The YPG-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) have withdrawn to Tel Rifaat town in the northern countryside of Aleppo...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - An official document seen by Reuters shows that at least 131 Russian citizens died in Syria in the first nine months of this year, a number that relatives, friends and local officials say included private military contractors.   The document, a death certificate...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Six rebel fighters were killed on Friday when two explosive devices stuck their cars in southern Daraa province, local activists said.  The improvised explosive devices have turned fatal weapon tracking moderate rebels in Daraa as clashes renewed with...