(AFP)- The Syrian government signed a deal with a Russian firm Monday for the first phase of an irrigation project for the drought-hit northeast of the war-torn country, state media said. The project, which had been planned before the uprising against President Bashar al-Assad...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia warned the United States on Monday against stepping up support for Syria's opposition, saying it would only bolster a caliphate declared by the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in part of Iraq and Syria. Baghdad called for international...

      (Zaman Alwasl) – Wife of the first Syrian Army defectors denied opposition claims over allocating a monthly salary for her displaced family. Ghufran Hijazi wife of Lieutenant Colonel Hussein Harmoush, who still in Syrian...

(AFP)- Jordan's King Abdullah II on Monday appealed for international support to help his country deal with regional turmoil after jihadists in neighbouring Iraq and Syria declared an "Islamic caliphate". "It is important that the international community continue to support...