An emboldened President Bashar al-Assad vowed on Monday to take back all of Syria, hours before the start of a ceasefire brokered by the United States and Russia, which Assad's opponents described as stacked in his favor. In a gesture loaded with symbolism, state television showed Assad...

Stan Wawrinka's stunning defeat of top-ranked Novak Djokovic in the U.S. Open final on Sunday booked the Swiss his place at the ATP World Tour Finals in London at the end of the year. Australian Open and French Open winner Djokovic, Wimbledon champion Andy Murray and Wawrinka are the first...

Iran, a close ally and military backer of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, welcomed a U.S.-Russian deal for a truce in Syria, saying on Sunday the conflict should be ended through politics. The agreement, by the powers that back opposing sides in the five-year-old war, promises a nationwide...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Free Syrian Army on Sunday has controlled the village of Kawkab in the northern countryside of Hama after preparatory mortar shelling followed by exploding a car bomb among regime’s forces inside the village, in the same time the regime airplanes hit the liberated areas...