U.N. Security Council members held an intensive round of meetings Friday on the humanitarian crisis in Syria's embattled Idlib province amid calls to reauthorize urgently needed cross-border aid. Humanitarian aid currently flows into northwestern Syria - a last rebel stronghold -...

For Iranians whose icons since the Islamic Revolution have been stern-faced clergy, Maj. Gen. Qassem Soleimani widely represented a figure of national resilience in the face of four decades of U.S. pressure. For the U.S. and Israel, he was a shadowy figure in command of Iran's proxy...

State-run media outlets on Thursday have reported a state of panic among the residents of Barada Valley west of the capital, after dozens of people were hospitalized with diarrhea, abdominal pain and severe vomiting. After a prolonged silence, the regime stated that the polluted water is the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Daesh (ISIS) group has kidnapped four Republican Guard troops near the Dumayr military airbase east of the Damascus, activists said Thursday. The Kidnapped soldiers, originally from Suweida, the main stronghold of Druze community, who has been subjected to a series of...