The world's chemical weapons watchdog said the banned nerve agent sarin was used in an attack in northern Syria in April that killed dozens of people, a report from a fact-finding team seen by Reuters on Thursday showed. The report was circulated to members of the Organisation for the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 38 regime army troops from the coastal city of Latakia in a week of clashes that take place in the desert and in southern Syria, activists told Zaman al-Wasl. The death toll included General, Colonel, Colonel Lieutenant, 2 Captains and 2 lieutenants, mostly...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The Criminal Security Branch subordinate to the Ministry of Interior in Latakia announced that a criminal gang, whose members belong to the National Defense militia, were arrested in a break with the Branch’s previous approach to National Defense members’ crimes. ...

United States-backed forces cut off the last escape route for Daesh (ISIS) from Raqqa on Thursday, a monitor said, trapping the besieged extremist inside their de facto Syrian capital.  Fighters with the Syrian Democratic Forces captured two villages on the southern bank of the...