China signaled on Wednesday it was willing to back an international inquiry into atrocities in Yemen, as demanded by the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, but Saudi Arabia and the United States said they did not support the idea. For three years running U.N. human rights chief...

Iran signed deals with Damascus on Tuesday to repair Syria's power grid, state media said, a potentially lucrative move for Tehran that points to a deepening economic role after years of fighting in the Syrian conflict. Shunned by Western powers, the Syrian government is looking to...

   The Lebanese Shi‘ite group Hezbollah has declared victory in the Syrian war while Russia said government forces had driven militants from 85 percent of the country where President Bashar al-Assad’s rule seemed in danger two years ago. The comments from two Syrian...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 40 people killed  in Russian and Syrian airstrikes when they were fleeing the violence in Deir Ezzor aboard ferries along the Euphrates River, activists said on Monday. The deadly strikes come as regime army sent massive reinforcements ahead of a final...