The European Union will seek to end an ugly spat with Turkey Friday despite deep unease about Ankara's future under President Tayyip Erdogan, whose sweeping new powers and crackdown on opponents appear to have ended the country's EU ambitions. Meeting in Malta, Turkish Foreign Minister...

Syrian President Bashar Assad said Damascus is negotiating with regime ally Moscow to buy the latest Russian anti-missile system to repel Israeli and American attacks. "It's natural that we should have such systems," he said, quoted by Syria's official SANA agency on Thursday, the same day...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The Criminal Investigation directorate in coastal Tartus city has arrested a female member of an abduction gang connected to security officers in Latakia and Tartus, where many people were victims of its crimes. The security forces and criminal section in Tartus and Latakia...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The regime and Iran’s plans to change the demography of Homs provincehave been succeeded as the people of al-Waer neighborhood keep heading the northern Syria in weekly batches. The opposition has not yet instituted any plans to accommodate these newly displaced persons...