(Zaman Al Wasl) Zaman al-Wasl learnt from an undisclosed special source that the regime air force has re-equipped four MiG-23 ML aircrafts that were previously stockpiled as unsuitable for use in the recent period. Russia is the regime’s key strategic ally, but the age of the...

  A U.S.-backed and Kurdish-led militias promised Thursday that no harm would come to ISIS fighters in Raqqa who turned themselves in by the end of the month, calling on them to lay down their arms ahead of an expected assault on the city. The Syrian Democratic Forces, which groups...

OPEC and non-member oil producers are gearing up to extend output cuts Thursday, possibly by as long as 12 months, to help clear a global stocks overhang and prop up crude prices. The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries is to discuss in Vienna whether to prolong an accord...

BY DAN DE LUCE, PAUL MCLEARY ( Foreign Policy )- A U.S. air raid against Iranian-backed fighters in southern Syria last week represents a volatile new phase of the conflict that could trigger a wider confrontation between the United States and Iran — and their allies on the ground....