Adnan Bakkur, Liwaa al-Tawhid commander in Aleppo has been killed in a car bomb blast by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) near the infantry school, north Aleppo, source told Zaman Alwasl. ISIL militants have seized parts of the military base after fierce...

Aid agencies in Syria have evacuated hundreds of people from the rebel-held Damascus suburb of Yarmouk, a government-aligned Palestinian group said on Saturday, in a rare moment of coordination between the government and rebel forces. Granting relief groups access to an estimated...

The death toll in Syria's civil war has topped 136,000 after January saw one of the conflict's bloodiest months, an NGO said Saturday, as violence claimed even more lives. But the prospects of a peaceful outcome looked dim after 10 days of talks in Geneva yielded no tangible results...

President Barack Obama plans to travel to Saudi Arabia in March on a mission to smooth tensions with Washington's main Arab ally over U.S. policy on Iran's nuclear program and the civil war in Syria, a newspaper reported. Obama is preparing to meet with King Abdullah for a summit, the...