Russia has never concealed the fact that it has been supplying military equipment to Syria aimed at fighting terrorism, RIA Novosti news agency cited a foreign ministry spokeswoman as saying on Monday. The agency, citing the ministry's spokeswoman Maria Zakharova, also reported that Foreign...

 France's president says the country will send reconnaissance planes over Syria beginning Tuesday to help in the fight against ISIS. President Francois Hollande says terror attacks have been planned from Syria against several countries, including France. He said his responsibility is to...

A huge duststorm hit Syria's provinces of Idlib, Homs and Latakia on Monday amid forecast reports say it's the fiercest in decades, in time regime supporters say the storm comes in favor of ISIS fighters who took an oil-rich village in northern countryside of Homs. Activists have praised the...

Syrian rebels have killed 10 Syrian regime soldiers in a counterattack on their post in the embattled town of Zabadani near the Lebanese border, activists said Sunday. In retaliation regime army has extended fierce bombardment on Zabadani town, about 45 km (30 miles) northwest of the capital...

At least 12 people were killed Sunday when the Syrian regime targeted opposition-held towns in the provinces of Damascus and Idlib with vacuum bombs and explosive-laden waste containers, according to civil defense sources. At least six civilians were killed, and dozens injured when the Syrian...

The Islamic State on Sunday has taken control of Jazel village in the northern countryside of Homs city, the hardline group said in statement as its fighters keep encircling a nearby oil field. Supporters of the the radical group said ISIS is pressing hard to capture Jazel oil field after...

Syrian state media said on Sunday that an Islamist insurgent had confessed after his arrest to being behind two car bomb blasts that killed 37 people in the south of the country on Friday, including a Druze leader. The explosions had provoked protests by Druze in the city of...

Al Qaeda's Syria wing the Nusra Front has blown up an army checkpoint east Hama city, killing number of military personnel including two officers, sources told Zaman al-Wasl Sunday. Al Sammakh checkpoint has been considered as one the most powerful bases east Hama city near Salamiyeh town, the...

. (Reporting by Mohamed Al Hussein; Translation by Yusra Ahmed) The Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD) operating in northern Syria has dissolved one of its factions, mostly Arabs who support ruling Baath party, where the battalion commander has been tortured in public over rape issue....

Britain moved closer to military action in Syria as a senior minister on Saturday said Europe's migration crisis had to be tackled at its source and a newspaper said a parliamentary vote on bombing Islamic State militants in Syria could take place next month. Finance minister...

 President Bashar al-Assad’s government has killed far more people in Syria this year than the Islamic State, monitoring organizations and analysts say, even as the extremist group grabs headlines with its shocking brutality. Between January and July, Assad’s military and pro-government...

At least 556 civilians have been killed in Syrian regime's deadly aerial campaign on Eastern Ghouta suburbs near Damascus since August 10, a local monitoring group said. The Unified Relief Office in the embattled eastern district of the capital has documented death of 566 people, including 123...

Secretary of State John Kerry expressed U.S. concern over reports of Russia's enhanced military build-up in Syria in a telephone call on Saturday with his Russian counterpart, the State Department said. "The secretary made clear that if such reports were accurate, these actions...

U.S. and coalition forces launched 25 air strikes in Iraq and eight in Syria on Friday against Islamic State targets, the U.S. military said. In Iraq, the air strikes were centered near 12 cities including Mosul, Ramadi, Baiji, Tuz and Sinjar, the Combined Joint Task Force said in...

Translation by Yusra Ahmed The Islamic State has imposed royalties on Christian adult males of  al-Qaryatain town, 90 km (60 miles) east Homs city, in what the hardline group said its an implementation for 'Dhimmis Contract', a 1377-year-old statement. The main theme of the contract...

Six Syrian government security personnel were killed by Druze gunmen in the south of the country, a monitor said on Saturday, after two car bomb blasts killed 26 people, including veteran anti-government cleric, overnight provoking angry protests. The two blasts, which occurred late on...

 Rebels on Friday have thwarted an ISIS attack on rebel-held town of Marea near the Turkish border where Ankara plans to set up a safe zone, rebel source told Zaman al-Wasl. Marea town, some 20 km (12 miles), south of the Turkish border, has witnessed intensified fighting between...

Two explosions rocked the predominantly-Druze city of Swaida in southern Syria on Friday, leaving at least 26 people killed, activists and state-run TV reported. The first blast took place at the Daher al-Jabal area in Swiada, in which four people were killed and 11 others wounded, said...

Turkey attempted to convince the world to set up a safe zone inside Syria to stem the flow of refugees from the war-torn country, but nobody heard its voice, Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said on Friday. He was speaking at a meeting of G20 finance chiefs in Ankara, days after...

The White House on Thursday said it was closely monitoring reports that Russia is carrying out military operations in Syria, warning such actions, if confirmed, would be "destabilizing and counter-productive." "We are aware of reports that Russia may have deployed military personnel...