(Zaman Al Wasl- Photos)- Despite the snowstorm that has been sweeping the central province of Homs for a week, rebels of al-Hola region keep their alert high.   One of Ahrar al-Sham fighters said rebels should be awake all the time to avoid any surprise attack by Syrian regime...

Saudi Arabia is determined that tensions with Iran should not derail international talks on Syria, another round of which is scheduled to take place in Geneva this month, the U.N. special envoy for Syria said on Tuesday. The United Nations has set a target date of Jan. 25 for the...

Roman Catholic officials said Tuesday that a Franciscan priest who had been abducted by militants in Syria has been freed. The custodian of the Catholic Church's properties in the Holy Land said the priest, Rev. Dhiya Azziz, was released late Monday. The office of the custodian, Rev....

  Islamic State's territory shrank by 40 percent from its maximum expansion in Iraq, and by 20 percent in Syria in 2015, as international forces pushed it out of several cities, the U.S.-led coalition fighting it said on Tuesday. There was no immediate comment from the...