(Middle East Eye)- Russia has agreed the United States should be involved in talks on Syria's future planned for later this month, Turkey's top diplomat said, as a series of explosions rocked Damascus.  Moscow and Ankara last month brokered a fragile ceasefire for the war-torn country,...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- A woman has been killed in regime aerial bombing on the northern countryside of Hama province, despite a fragile two-week-old truce , activists said Thursday. The strikes targeted the town of Alltamneh and the villages of al-Zallaqiyat, Qastal and Rasm al-Abed, residents...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 8 civilians, including 4 children,  have been killed in Russian air strikes hit the western countryside f Aleppo province, despite a fragile two-week-old truce, local reporter said Thursday. The Russian warplanes hit an apartment complex in Babka town...

Iran's former President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani died Sunday after a decades-long career in the ruling elite, where his moderate views were not always welcome but his cunning guided him through revolution, war and the country's turbulent politics. The political survivor's life spanned the...