U.S. President Barack Obama on Monday said Washington is prepared to work with Russia and Iran to try to end the more than four-year war in Syria that has spawned ISIS. "The United States is prepared to work with any nation, including Russia and Iran, to resolve the conflict," Obama told the...

 Iran's president said Sunday that Syrian leader Bashar Assad must remain in power to fight extremist groups like ISIS and must not be weakened, putting him at odds with the United States and key nations who insist Assad must go in order to achieve peace. Hassan Rouhani told a meeting...

Russia appeared to seize the initiative in international efforts to end the conflict in Syria on Sunday as Washington scrambled to devise a new strategy for the war-ravaged country and France sent warplanes to bomb Islamic State targets. As leaders gathered in New York at the...

(Translation by Yusra Ahmed) In this episode of the series “Under Microscope” about militias of the National Defense Forces (NDF) in the Yarmouk camp for Palestinian refugees in Damascus, Zaman al-Wasl publishes a list of members of the National Defense in the camp, with information...