Russia said Friday it had launched "humanitarian operations" in Syria where it is carrying out a bombing campaign against the Islamic State group, claiming peaceful life was slowly returning to the war-torn country. "The inhabitants are gradually coming back to Syrian cities and...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 6,000 people have fled regime major attack on rebel-held areas in southern countryside of Hama, activists said Friday. Hundreds of displaced families of Har Banafsheh and Deir al-Faris villages have headed the nearby al-Houla region in the northern countryside of...

 Russia and Syria in August signed an agreement giving Moscow the go-ahead for an open-ended military presence in the war-torn country, Moscow has revealed. The agreement was signed in Damascus on Aug. 26, 2015, more than a month before Russia launched a bombing campaign against the ISIS...

The number of Islamist militant fighters returning to Germany from Syria and Iraq is on the rise and more than 400 people are being watched, the head of German police said Friday. Holger Muench, president of the BKA federal police, told ARD television that the number of people leaving Germany...