The Syrian army and its allies pressed ahead Friday with a two-week-long offensive to seize a strategic valley where a key spring provides supplies to four million people in the capital, Damascus, residents and rebels said. Aerial bombing and shelling from the army as well as Hezbollah...

(Zaman Al Wasl)-  Syrian regime and its Iran-backed allies step up aerial bombing on the rebel-held Aleppo province despite a ceasefire deal brokered by Russia and Turkey 6 days ago, local reporter said. The pro-regime Iranian and Iraqi militias have positioned near Khanaser town in...

Gray is a dying town, its residents lament. Big businesses have moved away, taking jobs with them. Though it still lives up to its nickname "Gray la jolie," or "Gray the pretty," many stores now lie vacant, with fading "to rent" signs in their windows. But for one Syrian family, the...

Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Veysi Kaynak said a much larger attack was apparently being planned, based on the weapons found at the scene of a car bombing in the western city of Izmir Thursday. "Based on the preparation, the weapons, bombs and ammunition seized, it is understood that a big...