Around 500 Syrian refugees left southern Lebanon on Wednesday under an agreement between authorities in Beirut and Damascus that provides for their return to their home country, AFP's correspondent said. The UN's refugee agency said it was aware of the returns but was not...

Valery Gerasimov, the head of Russia's military general staff, and NATO Supreme Allied Commander Curtis Scaparrotti will meet on Thursday in Azerbaijan to discuss Syria, the TASS news agency reported, citing the Russian defense ministry. Gerasimov has arrived in Baku ahead of talks that...

(The Daily Beast)- The overwhelming majority of Syrian air defense systems that responded to last weekend's coalition strikes did so only after all 105 of the guided missiles had already successfully struck their targets. According to U.S. government sources with knowledge of the April...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- U.S.-led forces made a prisoner swap with Daesh in the eastern countryside of Deir Ezzor city, local activists said on Wednesday. 20 captives from each side were exchanged in al-Omar gas field, as a second swap deal will take place in a month, activist Abdul Rahman...