President Tayyip Erdogan on Sunday dismissed calls for Turkey to close a military base in Qatar and said a wider list of demands issued by four Arab states was an unlawful intervention against the Gulf emirate's sovereignty. In his strongest statement of support for Qatar in the nearly...

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad delivered prayers for Islam's Eid al-Fitr holiday in Hama on Sunday, the furthest he has traveled inside Syria in years, showing his growing confidence. State television broadcast footage of Assad standing to pray in a large mosque in Hama behind its...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 15 civilians killed on Friday in Russian airstrikes on Deir Ezzor as regime forces broke into the eastern province for the first time since 2014, a monitor and activists said, after seizing territory from ISIS. Activist Firas Allawi told Zaman al-Wasl that...

Syrian regime forces on Friday broke into the eastern Deir al-Zor province for the first time since 2014, a monitor said, after seizing territory from ISIS. Government forces control part of Deir al-Zor city and the adjacent military airport, but ISISholds the vast desert province and most...