Russian President Vladimir Putin hosted Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad to talk about the need to move from military operations to the search for a political solution to Syria’s conflict, the Kremlin said on Tuesday. Russia is actively trying to build an international consensus around a...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime forces have pounded Douma city with cluster bombs on Sunday, leaving two people killed, local activists said as shelling on the besieged Eastern Ghouta suburbs near Damascus have killed at least 70 people since Tuesday.    The regime army backed by...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Shelling by the Syrian regime on the besieged Eastern Ghouta suburbs near Damascus on Saturday killed at least 10 civilians, topping the death toll to 62 in 5 days of heavy bombing, local activists said. Saturday’s airstrikes have targeted Hazzeh and Madyara...

Veteran Venezuelan opposition leader Antonio Ledezma, under house arrest after his 2015 arrest for alleged coup plotting, escaped across the border to Colombia on Friday. Ledezma, the best-known detained opponent of leftist President Nicolas Maduro after Leopoldo Lopez, said he had gone...