PARIS, Jan 16 (Reuters) - France's highest court on Tuesday rejected a request from French cement maker Lafarge that it dismiss charges of complicity in crimes against humanity as part of an enquiry into how the group kept its factory running in Syria after war broke out in 2011. The procedural...

 The pro-regime  SyriaSteps website confirmed the news of the arrest of one of the most prominent merchants in the Syrian war, Khader Ali Taher, known as Abu Ali Khader, on charges related to smartphone trading. The website, which is close to the regime's intelligence...

Iran fired a barrage of ballistic missiles at positions of "terrorist groups" in Syria and Iraq late Monday, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said in a statement. The IRGC said a "spy headquarters" and a "gathering of anti-Iran terrorist groups" in Syria were destroyed with...

At least 11 members of the regime's intelligence were killed in a sophisticated infiltration operation carried out by the Islamic State group on Monday evening in the Palmyra Badia desert in the eastern countryside of Homs, a military source told Zaman al-Wasl.  The ISIS militants...