Syrian soldiers have raised the national flag on the battlements of a 900-year-old Crusader castle after a three-month siege that ended on Thursday when rebel fighters fled. The recapture of Crac des Chevaliers, a UNESCO World Heritage site, is a real and symbolic victory over...

A document sent from the Head of security branch 279 to Security Director dated 2/1/2014 shows evidence that Syrian regime decision in not more than dictation from Russian ally. Zaman Alwasl has obtained that document and it shows the Russian directions about Geneva2,...

The head of Shiite Lebanese movement Hezbollah, Hassan Nasrallah, sent an “indirect message” to Israel last year saying his country’s southern border is “the safest place in the world,” Asharq al-Awsat newspaper reported Wednesday. The London-based daily cited leaked...

Nearly half of Syria's declared chemical weapons have been shipped out of the country after two more cargoes were loaded onto vessels in the Mediterranean over the last week, the international team overseeing the disarmament process said. The joint mission of the  United...