Russia is postponing supplies of fighter jets and S-300 missile defense systems to Syria because official Damascus failed to pay for them, Kommersant newspaper said Saturday. The 12  MiG-29M/M2  jets that Russia agreed to sell to Syria will not be supplied before 2016-2017,...

More than two years into Syria's civil war, President Bashar al-Assad is settling his bills for Russian arms orders through the Russian banking system to try to shore up ties with his most powerful ally, according to a Russian arms industry source. The payments, which have increased in...

 A Syrian rebel leader plans to visit London to beg Foreign Secretary William Hague to support British and American military action against President Assad, British Daily mail reported. The plea comes after a chemical attack, apparently by Assad’s forces, killed hundreds...

 Al-Qaeda-linked Syrian jihadist group Jabhat al-Nusra on Sunday vowed revenge strikes against villages from President Bashar al-Assad's community over claims his forces used chemical weapons, AFP reported.  "The Alawite villages will pay the price for each chemical rocket...