(Zaman Al Wasl)- Head of the paramilitary National Defense Forces in Homs was killed on Friday in the ongoing fighting with the Islamic State near the ancient city of Palmyra, pro-regime media accounts said. M.General Sharaf Shaaban al-Oja, the head of NDF in eastern Homs and the commander...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least two Syrian refugee children have died on Friday due to a fire broke out in Derik camp near Turkish Mardin city, spokesman of the Syrian Association for Refugee Affairs said. Mudar al-Asaad told Zaman al-Wasl that many suffocation cases reported, three of them...

Syrian state TV has said that the army recaptured major parts of the historic and strategic city of Palmyra as battles rage between Syrian army troops and the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) fighters. Syria's state news agency, SANA, reported on Friday that the army, backed by...

Moscow's position that the future of Syrian President Bashar Assad should not be discussed at the moment has found understanding in Washington, the Interfax news agency on Friday quoted Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov as saying. "To a large extent, the current political process...