The Syria war is escalating in tandem with intensified diplomacy, but neither growing foreign military intervention nor a revived political track look capable of bringing an end to the 4-1/2-year-old conflict. The risk is a more ferocious proxy war between President Bashar...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian rebels on Monday have made gains against regime troops and their allies from Iran and Hezbollah in southern rural Aleppo, taking two hills and a village, The Revolution Coordination Committees said. Rebel factions led by the Conquest Army, an alliance of Islamist...

The head of the main political Syrian opposition body on Monday urged the extremist Nusra Front armed group to break with Al-Qaeda after a string of international terror attacks. "Over the past month the world has been surprised by several terrorist attacks, in Turkey, Lebanon, France and most...

(Zaman Al Wasl- Agencies)- The Syrian regime army and allied Shiite militia, backed by Russian bombardments, took control of two towns in western Syria after heavy battles with ISIS fighters, reports said Monday. Syrian state media reported the military and a local force had taken control of...