Islam Army fighters on Saturday have launched a major attack on an army base northeast Damascus, the clashes are still underway, activists say. Rebels seek to capture Idarat al-Morakabat in Harasta city, a move may cut the international road links between Damascus and Homs. Jaysh...

At least 40 migrants have died after apparently getting trapped and suffocating in the water-logged hold of a boat in the Mediterranean, the Italian navy said on Saturday. The victims are thought to have suffocated after inhaling fumes from fuel after the boat took on water in the hold, the...

Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov and his Iranian counterpart Mohammad Javad Zarif will meet on Monday to discuss the Iranian nuclear program and peace efforts in Syria, Russia's foreign ministry said on Saturday. The ministry said in a statement that the meeting would take place...

A Syrian rebel group said on Saturday a ceasefire was over between insurgents and the Syrian army and its Lebanese ally Hezbollah in a town near the Lebanese border and two villages in the northwest. Ahmed Qara Ali, spokesman for the Ahrar al-Sham insurgent group, said rebel groups had...