U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry heads to Moscow on Thursday to again seek deeper Russian cooperation in the war against Islamic State in Syria, but he faces strong opposition from defense and intelligence officials who argue that Washington and Moscow have diametrically opposite objectives...

Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- The Syrian regime is preparing plans to modify the law of mandatory military service after 6 years of issuance, it is expected to harden conditions over young men and make extremely difficult to get out of the country. The law of mandatory service...

 At least 12 people were killed in air strikes on the rebel-held western Syrian town of Rastan on Wednesday, a local doctor and a monitoring group said, despite a government-declared nationwide temporary truce. The British-based monitoring group, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights,...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 25 regime troops and allied militants were killed and wounded by rebels in new clashes in the southern countryside of Hama province, sources said Wednesday. Sources told Zaman al-Wasl that a group of entrenched fighters part of the Islamic factions in Homs’...