When Mohamed al-Khalaf escaped from Syria and won asylum in Luxembourg last year, his wife and children stayed behind in Raqqa, the hub of Islamic State's so-called Caliphate. Khalaf applied for his family to join him, exercising a right to family life under European law. But first,...

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov says the airstrike that the United States launched at a Syrian military base earlier this month damages the prospects of a political settlement for the war-torn country. The airstrike was in response to a chemical weapons attack on April 4 on a northern...

French intelligence services have concluded that forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar Assad carried out a sarin nerve gas attack on April 4 in northern Syria and that Assad or his closest entourage ordered the strike, a declassified report showed. The attack in the town of Khan Sheikhoun...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Free Syrian Army on Tuesday has recaptured al-Masasneh village in the northwestern Hama province as regime forces and allied Shiite militia press advances in the northern countryside, field sources said. Backed by heavy Russian and regime airstrikes, the regime army seeks to...