(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 38 troops from the coastal Tartus province killed in August by rebels and jihadist Tahrir al-Sham group in northwestern Syria, pro-regime activists said. The death toll included 8 officers. Most slain troops were killed in the northern countryside...

Israel has lifted a restriction on fuel delivered to Gaza for electricity, a defense official said Monday, a week after cutting the flow by half over a series of violent incidents. Israeli defense ministry unit COGAT announced on August 26 it was halving the amount of fuel allowed into Gaza...

A delegation of at least 40 businessmen from the United Arab Emirates attended a state-backed trade fair in Syria’s capital, defying U.S. warnings against doing business with the government and associates of President Bashar al-Assad. The UAE, one of Washington’s main regional allies,...

 The United States on Thursday sanctioned Lebanon-based Jammal Trust Bank SAL and its subsidiaries for allegedly facilitating the financial activities of Hezbollah, according to the Treasury Department, which said the bank funnels money to the families of suicide bombers. Separately,...