When Syria's war came to 73-year-old Joseph Mghazi's street in the Abbasiyeen neighborhood of Damascus, he ignored his neighbor's entreaties to halt his habitual streetside backgammon games. "We would sit and play backgammon as the shells were falling around us," he told AFP in the...

The White House is calling on Russia to immediately release all peaceful protesters arrested over the weekend during a large anti-government demonstration. White House press secretary Sean Spicer said the U.S. "strongly condemns the detention of hundreds of peaceful protesters throughout...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- The U.S.-led coalition airstrikes on Monday killed 6 people, including senior commander from Haya't Tahrir al-Sham in Idlib province, sources told Zaman al-Wasl. The strike targeted a car carrying Abu Jaber al-Hamwi, senior commander in the powerful alliance that...

The Tabqa Euphrates dam is not damaged or malfunctioning and engineers inspect its operations fully, a Syrian rebel spokeswoman said on Monday after ISIS militants said it was at risk of collapse. The U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces are fighting to repel ISIS from the dam, 40 km (26 miles)...