(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 24 regime troops and allied militants from coastal Latakia province killed by rebels in the last two weeks of February, pro-regime activists said. The death toll included a Colonel and two Brigadiers. About 500 regime fighters killed by ISIS, rebels and Tahrir...

MOSCOW: Seven candidates are lined up against Vladimir Putin in a Russian presidential election next month that he is all but guaranteed to win, extending his Kremlin term to 2024 with a fourth term in office. His competitors include a former reality TV star and a director of a fruit...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 20 troops from coastal Tartus province killed in the first two weeks of February, local activists said. Tartus is the main manpower supply for the regime army and its backed militias. Posters of dead young fighters have been sweeping the streets of Tartus and...

SOFIA- The European Union Thursday called for a swift restart of the stalled United Nations peace talks for Syria, worried by Russia's efforts to tighten the grip on power of its ally, President Bashar Assad. The U.N. talks in Geneva have made little progress during seven years of the...