(Zaman Al Wasl)- A powerful Syrian insurgent group said on Thursday it was studying a local ceasefire proposal tabled by an international mediator aimed at halting fighting near Damascus. Islam Alloush, spokesman for the Jaish al-Islam group, or Islam Army,  told Reuters the ceasefire...

U.S. President Barack Obama said Thursday it may take some months for Russia, Iran and the Syrian ruling elite to accept that there can be no end to Syria's civil war or a political settlement while President Bashar Assad remains in power. Obama said that Moscow and Tehran recognized ISIS as a...

Iran has called for all sides in Yemen's war to join U.N.-sponsored peace talks and accused Saudi Arabia of worsening the conflict with its military intervention against Tehran-backed rebels. In talks with visiting U.N. envoy Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed Wednesday, Iranian officials including...

(Zaman Al Wasl- Xinhua)- The ceasefire negotiations, which have been taking place to achieve a 15-day truce east of the capital Damascus, have failed, a monitor group reported Thursday. The Syrian government forces and an array of rebel groups in the Eastern Ghouta countryside of Damascus have...