A Russian foreign ministry official said on Monday delegations from the Western-backed Free Syrian Army (FSA) had visited Moscow several times, Russian news agencies reported, as Moscow stepped up political efforts to resolve the crisis in Syria. The Kremlin also said President Vladimir Putin,...

Islam Army denied reports saying regime forces have been making gains in territory it controls east Damascus. The key rebel group operating in the embattled Eastern Ghouta suburbs and in the eastern Qalamoun region said in press statement it has killed 24 regime troops northeast the capital on...

A new mass grave found Friday in the eastern province of Deir Ezzor that has contained 40 bodies for men from al-Sheitaat tribe who revolted against the Islamic State in July 2014. The Syrian Justice Center for Human Rights said the one-year-old grave had included corpses of 40 people, mostly...

In the courtyard of an apartment building in the town of Gori in ex-Soviet Georgia is a clue to whether Russia's air strikes on targets in Syria are as accurate as the Kremlin would like the rest of the world to believe. Fashioned out of fragments of ordnance is a makeshift shrine to the five...