Russia launched a second air strike on U.S.-backed Syrian fighters battling Islamic State, even after the U.S. military used emergency channels to ask Moscow to stop following a first strike, a U.S. official told Reuters on Friday. The official, who spoke to on condition of...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 30 militants loyal to Bashar al-Assad killed Thursday in rebels attack on govt-held town in northern Aleppo province, media accounts said. Activists said th fierce fighting took place in Khalsa battlefield as rebels press to recapture the town from regime forces...

(The New York Times)- More than 50 State Department diplomats have signed an internal memo sharply critical of the Obama administration’s policy in Syria , urging the United States to carry out military strikes against the government of President Bashar al-Assad to stop its persistent...

Syrian authorities on Thursday decided to raise the price of fuel, the official news agency SANA said, including petrol by 40 percent. The minister of internal trade and consumer protection issued the order for the price of a liter of petrol to be increased from 160 to 225 Syrian pounds (about...