Syrian regime's army has issued orders to return home for men conscripted for compulsory service in 2010, the year before war broke out, fighters and local media said Saturday. The decision ends the drawn-out deployment of thousands of Syrians who enlisted for the mandatory 18 months of...

The United States Thursday imposed sanctions on several Iranian and Turkish companies and a number of aircraft in a move targeting four Iranian airlines. The companies targeted were linked to Mahan Air and Meraj Air, the U.S. Treasury Department said. It added it was targeting a number of their...

 Syrian state-run media reported that the U.S.-led coalition fighting Daesh (ISIS) struck army positions in eastern Syria early on Thursday, but the U.S. military denied knowledge of it. Daesh lost most of its territory in Syria last year, but retained some remote desert areas and...

Syrian Deputy Foreign Minister Faisal Mekdad said on Wednesday that the withdrawal of Iranian forces from Syria was "not up for discussion", Lebanon's al-Mayadeen TV reported. "Whether Iranian forces or Hezbollah withdraw or stay in Syria is not up for discussion because it's the (business)...