(TASS)- The signing of a Russian-Syrian agreement on the Russian naval base in Tartus will serve the strengthening of stability across the entire Middle East and it has a potential for exerting beneficial influence on the inter-Syrian political dialogue, State Duma member Sergei Zheleznyak, a...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- ISIS militants have destroyed the historic Tetrapylon and severely destroyed the Roman Theatre in Palmyra, the UNESCO World Heritage site since 1980, residents told Zaman al-Wasl. Local sources in Palmyra reported to Zaman al-Wasl that the Islamic State (ISIS) has lately...

(The Ringer)- Let me start by making this clear: I want to like President Obama. I want to revere him as one of our nation’s greatest presidents. I want to believe that our imperfect but self-correcting democracy somehow got it right and elected one of its best people to lead it for eight...

 Iran's government and entities close to the elite Revolutionary Guards have signed major economic contracts with Syria, reaping what appear to be lucrative rewards for helping President Bashar al-Assad regain control of parts of his country from rebels. An opposition group condemned the...