Syria's army and its allies retook a village near Hama Saturday, a Syrian military source said, as the government tries to turn back a major insurgent offensive, but bitter fighting continued, a war activist said. President Bashar Assad and his allies, Russia, Iran and Shi'ite fighters from...

Russia, Iran and Turkey need to convene more Syrian ceasefire talks as soon as possible to bring the situation on the ground under control, U.N. Syria envoy Staffan de Mistura said on Friday. De Mistura is mediating political talks in Geneva, while a separate series of talks in the Kazakh...

U.S.-backed local forces fighting Islamic State in Syria on Friday reached one side of the Tabqa dam, one of the top prizes in their campaign to drive the jihadist group from Raqqa city, local campaign officials said. The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), an alliance of Kurdish and Arab...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The Negotiating Committee in the besieged neighborhood of Al-Wa'ar, in Homs city, issued a brief statement on Friday announcing the postponement of the second evacuation, which was scheduled on Saturday afternoon due to fierce fighting in Hama countryside between the Syrian...