Islamic State militants have blown up the Arch of Triumph, a major monument in the 2,000-year-old Roman city of Palmyra, Syria's antiquities chief said on Sunday, after they destroyed two ancient temples at the central Syrian site in recent months. Maamoun Abdulkarim told...

(Zaman Al Wasl- Exclusive)- One of Syrian regime soldiers who involved in mass torture photos published early 2014 is a refugee in Germany, according to Zaman Al Wasl sources. Mohamed Ahmed Tafankji has entered Germany 25 days ago and now lives with his mother and two brothers in...

Bashar al-Assad said the success of a military campaign by Russia, Syria and its allies was vital to save the Middle East from destruction, a day after Moscow said it would step up air strikes against Islamic State targets across Syria. A year-long air campaign by Western and...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel told a German radio station that military efforts were necessary in Syria even though they would not put and end to the four-year-old civil war there. Merkel said she had spoken to Russian President Vladimir Putin about the conflict in Syria on...