(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian rebels operating in the coastal region, Bashar al-Assad's historical stronghold, have thwarted army attacks on al Akrad and Turken Mountains on Wednesday as Russia warplanes continued air strikes on their bastions in support for regime troops on the ground....

Moscow's military force in Syria has grown to about 4,000 personnel, but this and more than a month of Russian air strikes have not led to pro-government forces making significant territorial gains, U.S. security officials and independent experts said. Moscow, which has maintained a...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Russian warplanes have carried out more than 30 raids on ISIS's de facto Syrian capital Raqqa on Wednesday, killing at least 18 people in second aerial attack in 24 hours, activists and monitoring group said. On Tuesday, 23 people including 13 militants, were killed,...

Greece  relocated six asylum-seeking families to Luxembourg on Wednesday, the first such transfer from its soil under an European Union plan to ease the burden on nations inundated by an influx of hundreds of thousands of refugees. Smiling parents holding young children posed for...