Some $1.68 billion was disbursed last year by UN and non-governmental organizations to help Syrian refugees in Lebanon, a UN official said Monday. In a statement, however, Philippe Lazzarini, the deputy UN special coordinator for Lebanon, said the disbursements only covered roughly 45...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Local activists from the eastern region of Qalamoun in Damascus countryside told Zaman al-Wasl that Russia has recently received the command of the 3rd Division, one of the Syrian regime’s most important military formations from the regime. The division is based in the city of...

The United States is lobbying its partners to let their fighters from the Islamic State militant group (ISIS) return home from Syria to face justice there. Top U.S. officials are calling on coalition allies to repatriate the foreign fighters who have been captured by the Syrian Kurds....

An Iraqi interior ministry official said Daesh’s (ISIS) head Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is alive and being treated at a field hospital in Syria after being wounded in an air strike. "We have irrefutable information and documents from sources within the terrorist organization that...