An Iranian official said Friday that 52 people had been arrested at protests the previous day in Mashhad as the government suggested hardline opponents may have been behind the unrest. Reformist media said hundreds had taken to the streets of Mashhad and other towns on Thursday in...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 300 Islamist fighters will leave the last Sunni-rebel held bastion near the Israeli-Occupied Golan Heights due to a new evacuation deal reached with the regime army near the capital, local activists and monitoring group said. A convoy of 'green' buses has...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime army forces backed by Iranian-backed militias took a strategic village near at the foothills of Mount Hermon near the Israeli-Occupied Golan Heights border, rebel commander told Zaman al-Wasl on Wednesday. Taking Mugher al-Meer village make the army and...

The number of registered Syrian refugees in Lebanon has dropped to below one million for the first time since 2014, the United Nations told AFP on Tuesday. As of the end of November, the U.N. refugee agency (UNHCR) counted 997,905 Syrian refugees -- a vast majority of them women and...