(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian rebels in Dumayr east of Damascus have agreed to lay down their arms and to hand over the town to the regime army, local activists said Monday. The ‘surrender deal’ in the strategic town followed the fall of Eastern Ghouta and its capital, Douma. Such a...

Turkey's stance against the Syrian regime and Bashar al-Assad has never changed, Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Hakan Cavusoglu said on Monday. Speaking in Lefkosa, the capital city of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC), Hakan Cavusoglu welcomed the U.S.-led airstrikes on...

European Union foreign ministers looked unlikely to join the United States Monday in imposing new economic sanctions on Russia or Syria over chemical weapons attacks that prompted the first coordinated Western air strikes in Syria. After Britain and France joined the United States in...

Russia may have tampered with the site of an alleged chemical weapons attack in Syria's Douma, the U.S. envoy to the global watchdog said Monday, calling on the agency to act against ongoing use of banned poisonous weapons. "It is long overdue that this council condemns the Syrian...