(Zaman Al Wasl)- Russia's warplanes have conducted more than 40 raids on ISIS-held ancient city of Palmyra and neighboring towns, local activists said Wednesday. The air strikes have also targeted the eastern countryside of Homs.   In its turn, Syrian army has pounded al-Qaryatayn town...

  (Zaman Al Wasl)- Well-informed sources said a U.S-backed alliance of Syrian Kurds and Arab rebel groups is preparing to fight Islamist insurgents instead of ISIS at a request of Bashar al-Assad delivered by his key ally Russia. Sources said Assad's concerns have risen over ISIS defeats...

Syrian rebels shelled two Shi'ite villages in the northwest of the country on Tuesday, killing at least one person, residents said, a day after pro-government fighters and civilians left the area for Turkey under a local ceasefire agreement. Britain-based monitoring group the...

A group of several hundred Syrians from two besieged towns arrived outside Damascus Tuesday after passing through Turkey and Lebanon as part of a rare UN-backed deal to evacuate people from flashpoint areas. A source close to the deal confirmed the arrival of over 300...