An enormous fire raged across several wheat fields outside this town on July 6. It was a dry summer day and dark smoke towered over the countryside as the flames spread across the farmland. Some locals watched in awe at the inferno. Others tried to fight back with shovels and rakes. They had...

Damascus said Thursday it rejects a U.S.-Turkish plan to establish a buffer zone in northern Syria, blaming Syria's Kurds for the proposal, state media said. "Syria categorically and blatantly rejects the agreement between the American and Turkish occupiers on the establishment of a...

   (Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian security services arrested about 20 young men wanted for conscription and three former rebels in Douma town, northeast Damascus despite reaching a reconciliation deal, local news site said. The arrest of former Jaish al-Islam fighters has accompanied...

The United States said on Wednesday the case of a deadly shooting in Lebanon should be handled in a way that achieves justice “without politically motivated inflammation” of tensions. Two aides of a government minister were killed in the June 30 shooting that has spawned a political...