Syrian government forces advanced into Palmyra Saturday with heavy support from airstrikes and artillery, state media and activists said, taking control of several districts in a major assault against ISIS fighters. Television footage showed waves of explosions inside Palmyra and...

 Greek police arrested six people on Saturday in an operation to break up a gang which counterfeited documents for asylum seekers on a Greek island, the coastguard said. The criminal group was active on the island of Kos, the coastguard said in a statement, adding that the authorities...

Palmyra's ancient Roman temples and archway, blown up by Islamic State fighters last year, will be restored once Syria recaptures the city from the ultra-hardline Islamist group, the head of the antiquities authority said on Saturday. Mamoun Abdelkarim told Reuters he hoped...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Two prominent figures in the embattled city of Zabadani were assassinated on Friday by Lebanese Hezbollah militia, local activists said. Dr. Mohamed al-Khos, the last-based doctor in the town, and defected Colonel Abdul Karim Alloush, 56, have lost their lives when the...