A new round of fierce fighting flared up Sunday between moderate rebels and forces loyal to Bashar al-Assad in the southern countryside of Aleppo city. A rebel source in al Shamiyeh Front told Zaman al Wasl that dozens of regime troops and their allied militia have been killed in cement...

A new member of Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) has been killed in northern countryside of Aleppo, activists said Sunday. Mustafa Sader Zadeh was a senior commander in Fatemiyoun Brigade which is formed of Iran-based Afghan expatriates who are trained by Tehran to fight in...

Bulgaria, Romania and Serbia on Saturday threatened to close their borders if EU countries to the north stop accepting migrants, as European leaders prepare for emergency talks on the continent's worst refugee crisis since World War II. Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov said the...

Saudi Arabia’s King Salman met with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry as he arrived in Riyadh on Saturday for talks on recent developments in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict and the Syrian war, the Saudi Press Agency reported. Crown Prince Mohammed bin Nayef and Saudi Foreign Minister Adel...