Valery Gerasimov, the head of Russia's military general staff, and NATO Supreme Allied Commander Curtis Scaparrotti will meet on Thursday in Azerbaijan to discuss Syria, the TASS news agency reported, citing the Russian defense ministry. Gerasimov has arrived in Baku ahead of talks that...

(The Daily Beast)- The overwhelming majority of Syrian air defense systems that responded to last weekend's coalition strikes did so only after all 105 of the guided missiles had already successfully struck their targets. According to U.S. government sources with knowledge of the April...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- U.S.-led forces made a prisoner swap with Daesh in the eastern countryside of Deir Ezzor city, local activists said on Wednesday. 20 captives from each side were exchanged in al-Omar gas field, as a second swap deal will take place in a month, activist Abdul Rahman...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime forces on Wednesday have launched aerial campaign on rebels’ bastions in the eastern Qalamoun as key town in the region reached an evacuation deal brokered by Russia. Four fighters were killed in eastern Qalamoun Mountains, which has been hit by 50 barrel...

Syrian regime forces shelled the last pockets in Damascus controlled by the Islamic State group (ISIS), preparing the ground for a possible assault on the militant stronghold, a monitor said Wednesday. After fully retaking the Eastern Ghouta region on the edge of the capital, the Syrian...

A UN security team was fired at on Tuesday while on a reconnaissance mission in the Syrian town of Douma to prepare the deployment of experts investigating an alleged chemical attack, officials said. "Shots were fired yesterday at a UN security team doing a reconnaissance in Douma," a...

President Donald Trump's newly minted national security adviser John Bolton and Secretary of State nominee Mike Pompeo are among those spearheading a push to build a coalition of Arab military forces that could replace US troops in Syria and serve as a stabilizing force in the region once ISIS...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Russian army on Wednesday met with the negotiation committee in northern Homs and southern Hama a day after the regime forces halted major attack began on the opposition-held areas. The committee said a long-term ceasefire would be the ground for any further...

The recent U.S.-led airstrikes on the Assad regime were "necessary and proportionate", European Council President Donald Tusk said on Wednesday as he urged Russia and Iran to "stop playing games" in the region. Addressing members of the European Parliament in Strasbourg city as part of...

International chemical weapons inspectors will probably not go into the Syrian town of Douma Wednesday, a U.N. source in Syria told Reuters, marking a further delay to efforts to investigate a suspected poison gas attack there. A U.N. security team entered Douma on Tuesday ahead of the...

  (Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime halted its attack on rebel-held area in central Homs and Hama provinces after rebels cut the main water supplies to government areas, pro-regime activists said Tuesday. The regime has succumbed to the threat of cutting off drinking...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian rebels in Dumayr east of Damascus will be evacuated to the town of Jarablus at the Turkish border as they agreed to lay down their arms and to hand over the town to the regime army, local activists said. The evacuation will begin on Thursday as regime forces gave...

Israeli officials say Assad's remaining chemical weapons stockpiles did not suffer a fatal hit in the strike, nor was the Syrian president deterred from using them again; 'only a partial damage was caused to the chemical weapons stockpiles and launch capabilities,' one official says....

International inspectors on Tuesday entered the Syrian town where an alleged chemical attack was carried out earlier this month, following delays by Syrian and Russian authorities. The fact-finding mission from the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons is investigating...

Turkish officials say Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has called for a scaling down of tensions over the chemical weapons issue in Syria during a call with Iran's President Hassan Rouhani. The officials said Erdogan and Rouhani held a telephone conversation on Tuesday during...

Germany has a special intermediary role allowing it to keep open the window for dialogue with Russia on the Syrian crisis, German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas said Tuesday. At a Berlin news conference alongside Canadian Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland, Maas also said the stalled...

   (Zaman Al Wasl)- Four people, including a child, were killed and 50 were wounded by an improvised explosive device rocked a demonstration condemning the US-French-British airstrikes in northeastern city of Raqqa, local activists said Monday. No rebel group claimed the...

A false alarm led to Syrian air defense missiles being fired overnight and there was no fresh attack on Syria, a commander in the regional military alliance that backs the Syrian government told Reuters. Syrian state TV reported overnight that anti-aircraft defenses had shot down...

The Pentagon on Monday denied any involvement in an attack on a Syrian air base outside Homs city, not far from where U.S., U.K. and French missiles struck early Saturday morning.  “There are no US or Coalition operations in that area [Homs]. We don’t have anything additional to...

Israeli Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman said Monday Israel will not allow Russia to curb its activities in Syria, according to Israeli media reports. Speaking to Israel's Walla news website, Lieberman said Israel had successfully avoided “direct friction” with Moscow and was...