Iran's defense minister said Wednesday it was "normal" for the country to test missiles as part of its defense research, Iranian media reported, after Washington said Tehran had test-fired a medium-range missile last week. Brigadier General Amir Hatami stopped short of explicitly confirming...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Militant Hayat Tahrir al-Sham group has freed Zaman al-Wasl reporter in northern Aleppo province after a week of arbitrary arrest.   Members of the former Syrian offshoot of al-Qaeda arrested Juma'a Haj Hamdo from his house last Wednesday in the western countryside...

At least 17 villages have been "completely destroyed" as the regime of Bashar al-Assad and its principal international ally, Russia, press a military offensive on northwestern Syria's Idlib province, the UN said Tuesday. Mark Lowcock, the UN's humanitarian affairs coordinator, told the...

Two-thirds of the United Nations Security Council - including the United States, Britain and France - asked Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday to investigate attacks on U.N.-supported medical facilities in northwest Syria, diplomats said. Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's...