Russia’s Vladimir Putin and Bashar Assad have met in Moscow to discuss the cooperation between their armies and how to continue operations to gain control of the last rebel-held areas in Syria, state-run media in Damascus reported on Tuesday. The Monday night meeting between the two...

At least four people, including a child and a woman, were killed and fifteen more wounded in Syrian artillery attacks on the rebel-held areas in northwestern Syria, opposition activists said. The  Tuesday's night  shelling of the city of Idlib came after several airstrikes...

The Syrian regime said it shot down Israeli missiles as they approached the capital Damascus on Friday, saying it had countered an “aggression” from its longtime adversary with its own air defenses. State-run news agency SANA said Syria shot down most of the missiles, which were launched...

Even as the US completed the withdrawal of its troops from Afghanistan on Monday ahead of an Aug. 31 deadline, the double suicide bombing at Kabul airport and US drone strikes against ISIS-K hideouts have amply highlighted that the dawn of peace in the war-torn country is still far away....