The United States on Friday allowed the U.N. Security Council to adopt a resolution demanding an end to Israeli settlement building, defying heavy pressure from long-time ally Israel and President-elect Donald Trump for Washington to wield its veto. A U.S. abstention paved the way for...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime helicopters on Friday dropped at least  26 barrel bombs on Wadi Barada district in Damascus suburbs, Local Coordination Committees said. The heavy aerial bombing on the border area with Lebanon seeks new forced displacement, local activists said as regime...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- ISIS killed 27 Syrian soldiers and allied militiamen in a series of attacks near Palmyra in the past 24 hours, activists said Friday. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said ISIS began launching attacks on regime forces and their allies Thursday night and...

Syrian rebels shelled Aleppo on Friday, killing three people, state television reported, a day after insurgents finished withdrawing from their last pocket of territory in the city. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a British-based war monitor, said about 10 shells had fallen in...