Nearly 1,000 fighters from al-Qardaha, Bashar al-Assad’s hometown, have been killed during the three-year conflict, pro-regime websites reported. The traditional home of the Assad family, which has ruled Syria since 1970, is  a main supplier for...

  BEIRUT (AP) — Activists say a coalition dominated by Islamic rebel factions in Syria has announced a new push to dislodge fighters from a rival, al-Qaida-inspired group from the northern province of Aleppo. Wednesday's announcement, reported by the Britain-based Syrian...

Saudi Arabia and Russia discussed Monday prospects of reaching a diplomatic solution to the three-year-old Syrian crisis that has claimed the lives of more than 100,000 and left millions of Syrians homeless. "Foreign Minister Prince Saud Al-Faisal and his Russian counterpart Sergei...

(Zaman Alwasl)- Al-Qaeda renegade group took control of Al-Rabiea’ town and its crossing border with Iraq after fierce clashes with the Iraqi troops and Kurdish Peshmerga units on Tuesday, Zaman Alwasl correspondent reported. Several Iraqi army...