Syria's civil war is in danger of flaring into a regional or even global conflict, but some diplomats hope the high stakes could, paradoxically, pave the way for a peace accord. Last week, five Russians were likely killed in a US-led coalition bombing on pro-regime Syrian fighters, the...

  (Zaman Al Wasl)- The Syrian regime continues to impose restrictions and put economic pressure on several areas in the Damascus countryside.  The Ministry of Finance has issued a decree imposing taxes on all residents of the city of al-Tal under the threat of...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 20 troops from coastal Tartus province killed in the first two weeks of February, local activists said. Tartus is the main manpower supply for the regime army and its backed militias. Posters of dead young fighters have been sweeping the streets of Tartus and...

SOFIA- The European Union Thursday called for a swift restart of the stalled United Nations peace talks for Syria, worried by Russia's efforts to tighten the grip on power of its ally, President Bashar Assad. The U.N. talks in Geneva have made little progress during seven years of the...