Local authorities outside Damascus say regime forces have cut off their town from a surrounding rebel-held Eastern Ghouta, isolating 20,000 residents with no access to aid. A member of the local council of Harasta said Wednesday that residents have been in underground shelters for long...

ANKARA (Reuters)- Turkish Recep President Tayyip Wednesday threatened to soon crush militants in northern Iraq, after his foreign minister last week said Ankara and Baghdad would carry out a joint offensive against Kurdish militants in Iraq. "We are checking the terror nests in northern...

   Syrian regime jets resumed strikes on several rebel-held towns in southern Daraa province Tuesday, rebels said, a day after Washington warned that such bombing would violate a U.S.-Russian "de-escalation zone". Two rebel sources said jets bombed the towns of Hrak, Busr al...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- A well-informed source said Iran had removed its drones from the T-4 military airbase to Palmyra airbase two weeks after the Israeli airstrikes last February. Geographically, the both bases are located in the Syrian desert, also known as Badiya, but the move by...