Dark clouds of smoke rose over Syrian rebel-held areas near the border with Jordan on Thursday as Bashar Assad's Russian allies unleashed heavy air strikes and regime forces launched ground assaults. Assad aims to recapture the entire southwest including the frontiers with the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- About 500 refugees in the Lebanese town of Arasl are expected to return to Syria due to reconciliation deal brokered by the Hezbollah militia, sources said. Most of the refugees are from the western Qalamoun region, according not Zaman al-Wasl reporter....

The Islamic State group says the son of its top leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi has been killed fighting Syrian regime forces. The announcement of the death of the al-Baghdadi's young son appeared on the group's social media accounts late Tuesday. It included a picture of a young boy...

Russian air strikes against rebels in southern Daraa province resumed Wednesday, residents and an activist group said, after a rebel said talks to restore regime rule there peacefully had failed. The air strikes targeted the towns of Tafas, northwest of the provincial capital Daraa, and...