An Iranian news agency said on Wednesday the commander of foreign operations for Tehran's elite Revolutionary Guards had met Russian President Vladimir Putin last week, but his spokesman flatly denied the report. Fars news agency said General Qassem Soleimani, who visited Moscow in July to aid...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Free Syrian Army fighters took ground from Isis in the Syrian desert near the Iraqi border on Tuesday, killing 15 militants, field sources told Zaman al Wasl. Martyr Ahmed al-Abdo Brigade and Osoud al-Sharqiya Brigade have captured number of Isis checkpoints near the...

Syrian regime troops and allied militia pushed rebel fighters back on Wednesday from a hilltop overlooking a strategic highway in President Bashar al-Assad’s coastal heartland, state media said. Citing a military source, state news agency SANA said army units and pro-government militia...

Islamic State is looking at potentially vulnerable oil assets in Libya and elsewhere outside its Syria stronghold, where the militant group controls about roughly 80 percent of the oil and gas fields, a senior U.S. official said on Tuesday. The official, who briefed reporters...