(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian rebels took four checkpoints from regime forces and allied militias in the southern countryside of Hama, killing and wounding 40 troops, rebel source said Tuesday. The operation room of the northern countryside of Homs has also thwarted regime attack on al-Zara town...

Rebel fighters and officials in a besieged Syrian town on the outskirts of Damascus believe government forces are preparing an assault after they turned back an aid convoy last week. Daraya, situated close to a large air base and just a few kilometers (miles) from President Bashar al-Assad's...

Senior envoys from world and regional powers are to meet once again in Vienna Tuesday in an effort to salvage stumbling efforts to halt Syria's bloody civil war. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov -- diplomacy's odd couple, at loggerheads over much...

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry will visit Cairo Wednesday for talks with President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi, amid a stark crackdown on political freedoms in Egypt. State Department spokesman Mark Toner said Kerry would fly to Cairo after talks on the Syrian crisis in Vienna and before heading...