Islamic Stae fighters on Monday have killed at least 26 Syrian regime soldiers on west of the ancient city Palmyra, a monitoring group said, after days of advances by regime forces backed by Syrian and Russian air cover. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the fighting...

The fate of President Bashar al-Assad will play no part in talks to end the Syrian war, the head of the government's delegation said, leading the U.N. peace envoy to warn that lack of progress on the issue could threaten a fragile cessation of hostilities. Damascus delegate...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The commander of al Qaeda's Syria branch in southern province of Daraa has been killed in the ongoing clashes with an Isis-affiliated group, local activists siad on Monday. Abu Salah al-Maslmeh, Nusra Front's commander in Daraa, was killed in clashes with Yarmouk Martyrs...

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras on Monday hailed the recent EU-Turkey agreement, under which refugees reaching Greece from Turkey will be sent back, as an important one. Welcoming Greek-born EU Migration Commissioner Dimitris Avramopoulos in Athens, Tsipras said, "We now have an uphill...