ALEPPO (Zaman Al Wasl)- Russia on Friday has stepped up its devastating air strikes on the rebel-held areas in northern Aleppo province, killing12 civilians in strikes focused on the two main hospitals of Azaz town, local reporter said. Two children and one woman were among the casualties....

 Pope Francis offered his full support for U.N. efforts to end the conflicts in Syria and Libya in his Christmas message Friday. "We pray... that the agreement reached in the United Nations may succeed in halting as quickly as possible the clash of arms in Syria and in remedying the...

Two thousand Syrian Islamist fighters, including ISIS and Nusra Front militants, were expected to be evacuated soon from besieged, rebel-held areas of southern Damascus in a deal brokered by the U.N., Reuters said Friday. Eighteen buses had arrived in the al Qadm area of Damascus to take them...

Reporting by Abdullah al-Ghadawi (Zaman Al Wasl)- A well-informed source told Zaman al Wasl that Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Jawad Zarif was very upset over a Jordanian terror list submitted to the United Nations last week, including the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps, Hezbollah and...