Syria's state grain buyer has signed contracts with local traders for 1.2 million tonnes of Russian wheat, a government source said, the country's second attempt at a huge wheat deal since October as it tries to secure supplies of the food staple. "We have signed six contracts each for 200,000...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Turkish-backed Free Syrian Army announced on Thursday that they had taken full control of the northern town of Al-Bab from ISIS after 75 days of deadly fighting. "We are announcing Al-Bab completely liberated, and we are now clearing mines from the residential neighborhoods,"...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Clashes have intensified Thursday in southern Daraa city between rebels and regime army that backed by a heavy airstrikes to capture a strategic neighborhood, activists said. The regime jets conducted 15 raids and dropped 6 barrel bombs on al-Manshiya neighborhood, the...

Syrian warplanes carried out air strikes on rebel-held areas in Deraa and Hama provinces and insurgents fired rockets at government targets on Thursday, the day peace talks are set to begin in Geneva, a war monitoring group said. However, the overall level of violence in western Syria was...