A joint command center made up of the forces of Russia, Iran and militias supporting Syrian President Bashar al Assad said the U.S. strike on a Syrian air base on Friday crossed "red lines" and it would respond to any new aggression and increase its support for its ally. The United States...

( Associated Press )- Syrian state media says President Bashar Assad has spoken with his Iranian counterpart following last week's U.S. missile strike on a Syrian air base. Iranian President Hassan Rouhani called the strike on Friday a "blatant violation" of Syrian sovereignty and affirmed...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- The fourth batch of Waer neighborhood's evacuees arrived in to Jarablus, the border town with Turkey, leaving the last rebel stronghold in Homs city, local reporter said Sunday. The 40 buses carried 1427 people, including 405 women and 600 children, resuming an...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Russian air strikes have bombed out service the main hospital of Dael town in southern Daraa province overnight, killing and wounding medics and patients, local activists said Sunday. The vacuum missiles attack on the medical facility come as rebels pressed gains in the Old...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Al Jabha Al Shamiya rebel group freed Saturday two former army defectors who refused to rise the Turkish flag in the border town of Azaz, activists said. Brigadier general Sabri al-Awad and Lieutenant Colonel Abdullah Zaino, two Free Syrian Army commanders, were arrested by...

( Reuters )- U.S. Navy Admiral Michelle Howard said on Saturday U.S. cruise missile strikes on an air base in Syria had destroyed the means to deliver chemical weapons from that base, and the U.S. military remained ready to carry out further strikes if needed. Howard, the four-star officer...

( The Guardian )- In the quiet streets of Khan Sheikun this week, as people wept for and buried the dead from a sarin attack, they also braced for the sound of warplanes in the skies above them, and the next attack. On Saturday the planes came back, killing a woman and injuring one other...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 21 civilians were killed Saturday when Russian jets struck the northern Idlib province with international forbidden bombs, local reporter said. At least 18 people lost their lives in cluster bombs attack the town of Awarm al-Joz, as well three more people were killed...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian air force is moving its warplanes to the Russian-controlled Hmeimym airbase in Latakia province and to the civil airports over fears of new U.S. air strikes, military source told Zaman al-Wasl. The International airports of Damascus, Qamishli and Aleppo to be a...

( AFP )- Arab League chief Ahmed Abdul Gheit warned Saturday against a "dangerous escalation" in Syria after a U.S. missile strike on a Syrian airbase following an alleged government chemical attack. "The Arab League rejects regional and international powers' attempts to politick over the...

( AFP )- At least 15 civilians, including four children, were killed in a suspected U.S.-led coalition airstrike Saturday near ISIS' Syrian bastion Raqqa, activists said. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said at least 17 people were injured in the strike on Heneyda, and that the...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Russian and Syrian warplanes struck Lataminah town northwest Syria with internationally forbidden Napalm bombs overnight, causing huge fire, local activists said Saturday. The fire has swept large areas in the key town of the northern countryside of Hama province....

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The fourth batch of Waer neighborhood's evacuees left the last rebel stronghold in Homs city Saturday, heading Jarablus, the border town with Turkey, local reporter said. The 40 buses carried 1427 people, including 405 women and 600 children, resuming an evacuation expected to...

In a post on Facebook , the Russian prime minister, Dmitry Medvedev, has written about “completely ruined relations” between Russia and the US. He said: That’s it. The last remaining election fog has lifted. Instead of an overworked statement about a joint fight against the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Two warplanes took off from a central Syrian air base Friday hours after it was struck by U.S. missiles and bombed targets nearby, activists said. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the aircraft "took off from inside the Shayrat base, which is partially back in...

( Reuters )- The situation in Syria "amounts to an international armed conflict" following U.S. missile strikes on a Syrian airbase, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) told Reuters on Friday. The United States fired cruise missiles at a base from which President Donald Trump...

By Kareem Shaheen ( The Guardian )- Khan Sheikhun is a ghost town, its streets deserted and silent as though mourning the victims of the atrocity that occurred here two days earlier. The only reminder of what happened is a small, blackened, crater near the northern part of town, where...

( AFP )- A U.S. missile strike on an airbase in central Syria early Friday was "foolish and irresponsible," President Bashar Assad's office said. "What America did is nothing but foolish and irresponsible behavior, which only reveals its short-sightedness and political and military blindness...

The Russian military says it will help Syria strengthen its air defences after the US strike on a Syrian air base, the Associated Press (AP) reported. Russian defence ministry spokesman Maj Gen Igor Konashenkov said that a “complex of measures” to strengthen Syrian air defences will be done...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 76 regime troops, including 14 officers, from Hama province were killed in March by rebels and the Islamic State, pro-regime activists said. Most of the soldiers were killed in the northern countryside of Hama when rebels launched a major attack three weeks ago. ...