Russia has asked the United Nations Security Council to hold closed-door discussions on Turkish military action in Syria and Iraq, diplomats said on Monday, in the latest sign of increasing tensions between Moscow and Ankara. Russia's U.N. mission had no immediate comment. But council...

Canada's new Liberal government will act within weeks to fulfill a campaign promise to withdraw six fighter jets that have been attacking Islamic State positions in Iraq and Syria, a top official said on Monday. The Liberals, who took power last month, say Canada can contribute more...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Zahran Alloush, Islam Army's commander, will not attend Syrian opposition meeting due to begin in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday, source told Zaman al Wasl. Islam Army, or Jaysh al-Islam, is one of the most powerful rebel groups in Syria that operates in Eastern Ghouta suburbs near...

Fourteen people were killed and another 20 injured Monday by airstrikes carried out by Russian warplanes on opposition-held parts of Syria’s Aleppo province. According to local civil defense sources, Russian warplanes also struck Aleppo’s opposition-held Sukkari, Al-Hulk and Firdevs districts....

A Syrian opposition meeting due to begin in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday marks the most serious effort yet to unify President Bashar al-Assad's fragmented enemies, a step seen vital to peace talks sought by world powers but which has riled Iran. While the outlook for the political track recently...

Syria expressed outrage Monday after a suspected US-led coalition strike for the first time killed regime troops, but the coalition denied its warplanes hit an army base. In a letter to the United Nations Security Council and Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, Syria's...

 The US-led coalition fighting the Islamic State group denied Monday its planes carried out air strikes that killed at least three Syrian regime troops a day earlier. "We've seen those Syrian reports but we did not conduct any strikes in that part of Deir Ezzor yesterday. So we see no...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime air strikes on the embattled Eastern Ghouta suburbs have killed 18 people on Sunday, activists and medics said. Regime's missile attack on Zamalka outskirt east of the capital has left at least 15 people dead and dozens wounded. Three more people have lost...

Energy links between Bashar al-Assad’s regime and Islamic State stretch beyond oil, according to a Turkish security source that spoke to Anadolu Agency. The Syrian regime and ISIS, which controls most oil and gas fields in Syria, have been cooperating over power supplies as well as trading...

Humanitarian aid has reached a besieged rebel-held area in the central Syrian city of Homs, part of a local ceasefire deal that is to include the withdrawal of opposition fighters, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. In a delivery presided over by the United Nations, food and...

Saudi Arabia will host a meeting of Syrian opposition groups in Riyadh from Dec. 8-10 aimed at choosing representatives for future international talks on Syria, the official Saudi Press Agency said on Sunday. The Saudi conference marks an attempt to bring together disparate groups...

 At least 32 people, including 8 children and 5 women, were killed on Sunday in apparent US-led coalition air strikes on the Islamic State's stronghold of Raqqa province, activists and monitor said. He said the wave of raids hit IS bases to the north, east and...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime warplanes had dropped 820 barrel bombs on Daraya suburb southern the capital in November, local governing council said. The poor southern outskirt of Damascus has been under suffocating siege for over three years and under daily barrage of barrel bombs in...

A powerful Syrian rebel group said a conference to try to unify Syria's opposition will open on Tuesday in Saudi Arabia, and that it had been invited to the talks. "Islam Army has received an invitation to attend the Riyadh conference, which has been decided to be held between (December)...

British air strikes on Islamic State will fail to defeat the militant group, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said in an interview with the Sunday Times newspaper, mocking Prime Minister David Cameron's strategy in the region. British lawmakers approved the bombing of...

A top advisor to Iran's Supreme Leader on Sunday said the future of Syria's President Bashar al-Assad could only be determined by the Syrian people and this was a "red line" for Tehran. Assad's fate is a sticking point in talks between world powers aimed at finding a political solution to...

Secretary of State John Kerry said on Saturday the next round of talks on the Syrian crisis would take place in New York later this month. "The governments involved are going to meet later in this month in New York in order to continue to move this process forward," Kerry said in a speech to...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- An ISIS car bomb exploded Saturday in the northern province of Aleppo, killing at least 7 rebel fighters in an attack on rival group in Tal Refaat town, Zaman al Wasl reporter said. The rigged car exploded near a military post affiliated to al Shamiya Front, key rebel group...

British bombers made their second round of strikes on Islamic State targets in Syria late on Friday, again hitting oil fields, British defense minister Michael Fallon said on Saturday. "Last night we saw the Typhoons in action for the first time, successfully hitting an oil...

(Reuters)- Top U.S. arms makers are straining to meet surging demand for precision missiles and other weapons being used in the U.S.-led fight against Islamic State and other conflicts in the Middle East, according to senior U.S. officials and industry executives. Global...