(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime has deployed troops in the Syrian desert along the borderline with Iraq and Jordan due to a Russian demand as fears mount from a Western-backed attack by armed opposition, source said Sunday. The mobilising came as the U.S.-backed...

The Syrian army and its allies are on the verge of completely seizing the rebel-held district of Qaboun on the edge of the capital Damascus following over two months of aerial strikes and artillery shelling, rebels and state media said on Sunday. But rebels said they still held a small...

Syria's government has reached a deal with rebels in the Qabun neighborhood of Damascus for the evacuation of opposition fighters, Syrian state media and a monitor said on Saturday. The deal comes after similar evacuations from neighboring rebel-held Damascus districts and a government...

( ESPN )- ON A COOL February afternoon, one of Syria's greatest soccer players sits outside a mall on the Persian Gulf, paralyzed by a decision that he fears could kill him. For five years, Firas al-Khatib has boycotted the Syrian national team to protest dictator Bashar al-Assad, who...