At least 10 people were wounded on Sunday in an explosion that hit a military bus in the Mazzeh residential district of western Damascus, Syrian state television reported. The official SANA news agency said the blast was caused by a bomb, and an AFP journalist saw blood on the floor of the...

Germany and Austria are working on a proposal for a common European asylum law, Germany's refugee crisis coordinator said in an interview with German magazine Focus. Hundreds of thousands of migrants fleeing war and poverty in Syria, Afghanistan and elsewhere have arrived in...

  A former Lebanese prisoner of Israel freed in a 2008 swap deal with Hezbollah has been killed in an Israeli airstrike in Syria, the party's Al-Manar television reported early Sunday. Al-Manar said in its morning broadcast that Samir Kuntar was killed in an Israeli airstrike...

Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- Many militias help the Syrian regime in its battles against rebels in the countryside of Latakia like National defense forces (NDF), Baath Brigades, its commander Hossam Khadra was killed in the Battle of al-Anfal in spring last year. Syrian...