(Zaman Al Wasl)- Iran has supplied the Syrian air force with tires for its Sukhoi 22 fleet,  after the Russian robust fighter bombers have been out of service in Syria and not any more available in Russia, military source told Zaman al-Wasl The Iranian shipment was delivered this month to...

Three heavy attack helicopters have left Moscow's Hmeymim airbase in Syria for Russia, Russian state TV channel Rossiya-24 reported on Monday. Two Mi-24 and one Mi-35 helicopters left the base onboard the heavy Antonov-124 transport airplane, along with some engineers and technical staff. This...

Hundreds of migrants stranded at a makeshift Greek camp protested near the border with Macedonia on Sunday, demanding that the border be opened as they clung to hopes of making it into Europe despite new EU moves to send some refugees back. Around 50,000 migrants and refugees...

Iraqi Christians gathered in Baghdad this weekend to mark Easter but celebrations were tempered by fears Islamic State would eradicate their shrinking community, even as the army launched a U.S.-backed offensive to retake Mosul, their ancestral homeland. In mid-2014, Christians...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- A key rebel group that controls Bab al Salama border crossing with Turkey has appointed Qasem Qasem, defected police officer, as director for the crossing, sources said Sunday. The colonel, who defected the interior ministry in July 2012, was appointed by al-Shamiyeh Front...

Translation by Yusra Ahmed CAIRO (Eqtsad)- In mid 2013, the Egyptian government has enforced an entry visa for Syrian people in order to be able to enter Egypt. Syrians subsequently, were forced to buy these kinds of visa at high costs because usually no more than 5% of visa application via...

Syrian President Bashar Assad on Sunday hails his troops’ victory over jihadists in the ancient oasis city of Palmyra as an “important achievement.” “This is an important achievement and fresh proof of the efficiency of the Syrian army and its allies in fighting terrorism,” Assad says of the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least five civilians killed in a car bomb attack targeted the border town of Sarmada in northern Idlib province, activists said on Sunday. The blast has also left 9 people wounded in the strategic town near Bab al-Hawa border crossing with Turkey. No rebel group has...

Syrian government forces recaptured Palmyra on Sunday, state media and a monitoring group said, inflicting a significant defeat on the Islamic State group which had controlled the desert city since May last year. Syrian television quoted a military source saying the army and its militia allies...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Four Free Syrian Army fighters killed on Saturday in an ISIS suicide bomb attack stuck their headquarters in the southern province of Daraa, activists said. The Yarmouk Martyrs Brigade, an ISIS-linked group, claimed the responsibility for the attack in Tafas town in the...

Syrian government forces advanced into Palmyra Saturday with heavy support from airstrikes and artillery, state media and activists said, taking control of several districts in a major assault against ISIS fighters. Television footage showed waves of explosions inside Palmyra and...

 Greek police arrested six people on Saturday in an operation to break up a gang which counterfeited documents for asylum seekers on a Greek island, the coastguard said. The criminal group was active on the island of Kos, the coastguard said in a statement, adding that the authorities...

Palmyra's ancient Roman temples and archway, blown up by Islamic State fighters last year, will be restored once Syria recaptures the city from the ultra-hardline Islamist group, the head of the antiquities authority said on Saturday. Mamoun Abdelkarim told Reuters he hoped...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Two prominent figures in the embattled city of Zabadani were assassinated on Friday by Lebanese Hezbollah militia, local activists said. Dr. Mohamed al-Khos, the last-based doctor in the town, and defected Colonel Abdul Karim Alloush, 56, have lost their lives when the...

The Kremlin said Saturday that "no one is under any illusion" that it is possible to create an anti-terrorist alliance of Russia and the United States or with other Western nations, RIA news agency reported. President Vladimir Putin's spokesman Dmitry Peskov made the statement, commenting...

Reporting by Mustafa Mohamed; Translation by Yusra Ahmed GAZIANTEP (Eqtsad)- Turkish official figures said the number of Syrian refugees in the border city of Gaziantep has been increased strongly to reach 325,000 people, however the count increases to about half a million people after adding...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Head of the paramilitary National Defense Forces in Homs was killed on Friday in the ongoing fighting with the Islamic State near the ancient city of Palmyra, pro-regime media accounts said. M.General Sharaf Shaaban al-Oja, the head of NDF in eastern Homs and the commander...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least two Syrian refugee children have died on Friday due to a fire broke out in Derik camp near Turkish Mardin city, spokesman of the Syrian Association for Refugee Affairs said. Mudar al-Asaad told Zaman al-Wasl that many suffocation cases reported, three of them...

Syrian state TV has said that the army recaptured major parts of the historic and strategic city of Palmyra as battles rage between Syrian army troops and the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) fighters. Syria's state news agency, SANA, reported on Friday that the army, backed by...

Moscow's position that the future of Syrian President Bashar Assad should not be discussed at the moment has found understanding in Washington, the Interfax news agency on Friday quoted Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov as saying. "To a large extent, the current political process...