Over three dozen Syrians held for years by al-Qaeda-linked insurgents in the country's northwest were released on Tuesday as part of a deal to hand over areas around Damascus back to the government. The 42 people freed on Tuesday are the first batch of more than 80 who are due to be...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Pro-regime media mourned 25 fighters loyal to Bashar al-Assad said they had been killed in the overnight missile attack on Iran-run base in Hama province. Most of the slain fighters were Syrians from coastal region. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human...

 Their clothes caked with mud, a small group of refugees from Syria trudge past a Greek farmer tilling his field on a tractor. He barely pauses to look at them. In the villages near the Evros River, the natural boundary with Turkey in northeastern Greece, such arrivals are now...

An overnight missile attack in Syria's northern region has killed 26 pro-government fighters, mostly Iranians, a Syria war monitoring group said Monday. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the attack appears to have been carried out by Israel and targeted an arms depot...