Ali Akbar Velayati, a senior adviser to Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, said Friday that Tehran coordinates positions on its military presence in Syria with Moscow and Damascus. He made his comments at a conference in Moscow, in response to a question about whether Iran...

Israel threatened a "harsh response" on Monday to any attempt by Syrian forces advancing against southern rebel areas to deploy in a Golan Heights frontier zone that was demilitarised under a 44-year-old U.N. monitored truce between the neighbouring foes. Syrian government forces backed...

A delegation of the umbrella Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) on Monday headed for Syria to check on the conditions of Palestinian refugees in the war-torn country. The delegation is expected to meet Syrian regime officials and representatives of Palestinian factions during the...

Syrian regime air defences shot down missiles targeting the T4 air base in Homs province in an act of "aggression" Sunday night, state media said. The state media reports did not explain the origin and nature of the attack. Damascus, as well as its allies Iran and Russia, blamed...