(Zaman Al Wasl)- Russian military police have been deployed in the northern countryside of central Homs province, setting up two checkpoints and observation points as part of a cease-fire deal reached last week.    The main Russian checkpoint was in Dar al-Kabira crossing,...

Syrian regime and allied forces have taken the last major town in Homs province from Islamic State, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Saturday, as the army advances toward militant strongholds in the east of the country. The town of al-Sukhna lies some 50 km (30 miles)...

Syria's Ministry of Tourism says visits to Syria have jumped 25 percent so far this year. Tourism Minister Beshr Yaziji says 530,000 people visited Syria during the first half of 2017, a 25 percent increase compared to the same period in 2016. His comments were reported on state media on...

A member of the U.N. Commission of Inquiry on Syria said on Sunday she was quitting because a lack of political backing from the U.N. Security Council had made the job impossible, Swiss national news agency SDA reported. Carla del Ponte, 70, who prosecuted war crimes in Rwanda and former...