Fewer than 1,000 Islamic State fighters remain in Iraq and Syria, the United States-led international coalition fighting the hardline Sunni militant group said on Wednesday, a third of the estimated figure only three weeks ago. Iraq and Syria have both declared victory over Islamic...

Medical evacuations have begun from the Syrian rebel-held enclave of Eastern Ghouta to Damascus, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in Syria said on Wednesday. Almost 400,000 people in Eastern Ghouta are besieged by forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad, and the...

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Wednesday the main part of the battle with Daesh (ISIS) in Syria was over, according to the state-run RIA news agency. RIA also quoted Lavrov as saying the key task in Syria now was to "destroy Jabhat al-Nusra," referring to the al...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- A significant increase of hepatitis has been witnessed  among children in the northern countryside of Homs province   over the past three months.  Such a scary disease came as the regime forces continue their siege on the area for the fifth year in a...