(Zaman Al Wasl)- Hayat Tahrir al-Sham on Thursday thwarted a major attack by the regime army and Iranian-backed militias in the southern countryside of Idlib province, local reporter said. Fierce clashes took place early Thursday near the town of al-Mushairfa southeastern of Idlib city....

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Spokesman for Syria's High Negotiations Committee said the opposition is not as weak as some are trying to portray it, assuring that the unity of Cairo, Moscow and Riyadh platforms has showed a concrete stance prevented the U.N. envoy from using the multiplicity of the...

Russia's parliament Thursday ratified an agreement with Damascus to expand the Russian military's naval facility in the Syrian port of Tartus. The agreement was signed in Syria in January and was sent last week by Russian President Vladimir Putin for ratification by the parliament's...

When Vladimir Kabunin signed up as a private military contractor, he saw a chance to make a wage much higher than any he could earn in his provincial Russian hometown. Happy to be able to support his wife and son, the ex-police officer left Orenburg, nearly 1,500 km (940 miles)...