(Zaman Al Wasl)- A car bomb exploded Tuesday in the rebel-held town of Ma'arat al-Nu'man in Idlib province, killing a woman and wounding ten people, local activists said. The explosives-laden car detonated near the town's Grand Mosque, activist Khaled Abu Abdullah told Zaman al-Wasl, leaving...

When Vladimir Putin announced the withdrawal of most of Russia's military contingent from Syria there was an expectation that the Yauza, a Russian naval icebreaker and one of the mission's main supply vessels, would return home to its Arctic Ocean port. Instead, three days after...

Four months after President Vladimir Putin accused Ankara of a "stab in the back", Turkish business executives in Russia are getting used to saying hasty goodbyes. "Every week another friend calls to say he's leaving," one Turkish businessman based in Moscow told Reuters. "It's...

Syrian army successes will help accelerate a political settlement to the country's civil war, President Bashar al-Assad said, because they weaken the position of international opponents who he accused of hindering any agreement. In an interview published as government forces,...