A Syrian warplane crashed northeast of Damascus on Friday and its pilot was captured by rebels in the area, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. Syrian state media said the crash was caused by a technical fault and a search was under way for the pilot, who had ejected....

Translation by Rana Abdul (Zaman Al Wasl)- Since July 2015, Turkey has paid a blood tax of 250 people who have died in a series of attacks in throughout the country. The country neighbors a region boiling with disruptions, especially Syria that has been lit by war for 5 years and a half fueled...

Russia will countenance Syrian President Bashar al-Assad leaving office, but only when it is confident a change of leader will not trigger a collapse of the Syrian government, sources familiar with the Kremlin's thinking say. Getting to that point could take years, and in the meantime Russia...

Syrian President Bashar al Assad said in an interview to be broadcast on Friday that Western countries had sent security officials to help his government covertly in fighting Islamist militants involved in Syria's war. Assad, in remarks to Australia's SBS News channel that were carried by...