In the early days of the assault on Islamic State in Mosul, Iran successfully pressed Iraq to change its battle plan and seal off the city, an intervention which has since shaped the tortuous course of the conflict, sources briefed on the plan say. The original campaign strategy called for...

  The Syrian regime accused Israel of attacking near Damascus for the second time in a week, raising frictions between enemies who have labored to keep spillover from the war in Syria from entangling them in their own, separate conflict. Israel fired surface-to-surface missiles at...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime rejects any ceasefire negotiated by any party in rebel-held eastern Aleppo unless what it describes as 'terrorist groups' there depart, its Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday in a statement carried by state media. Moscow said on Monday that Russian and U.S....

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Three children have been killed in Russian air strikes on the northern city of  Idlib on Monday, as the death toll is expected to rise, the volunteer Civil Defense group said. The Russian Vacuum missiles hit the northern neighborhood of Idlib while regime warplanes...