The Qatari Navy on Thursday took part in joint naval drills with the British Royal Navy in Qatari territorial waters, Qatar’s Defense Ministry said in a statement. The drills were conducted within the framework of “longstanding defense cooperation between the two friendly countries with...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Regime forces began bombarding the Hajr al-Aswad neighborhood and Yarmouk Palestinian camp inside Damascus only hours after reports surfaced that Daesh (ISIS) militants would be given two days to leave, activists said Thursday. Local opposition activist Sami Dreid, in...

The Syrian regime took control of a town northeast of Damascus Thursday after rebels evacuated to north Syria the latest in a string of handovers by rebels to the regime. Residents in the town of Dumayr welcomed security forces into their town in a triumphant show for the cameras of the...

Russia said Thursday that Syrian government forces found German "chlorine containers" and British "smoke grenades" in the country's Eastern Ghouta, an ex-rebel enclave that was taken over by regime forces in April. "In the liberated territories of Eastern Ghouta, Syrian government...

Iran, Iraq, Syria and Russia held a meeting in Baghdad Thursday of military and security officials to coordinate "anti-terrorism" efforts, the Iranian defense ministry said. "Cooperation in intelligence between the four countries for common aims and anti-terrorism missions has been...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime warplanes carried out four raids on the eastern countryside of Daraa province, in a new violation for the US-Russian brokered de-escalation agreement, local activists said Thursday. Daraa-based activist Dia'a al-Hariri told Zaman al-Wasl that no casualties...

A U.S. ambassador says his country is maintaining a "maximum pressure campaign" to convince North Korea to denuclearize even as Washington prepares a summit between President Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un. Robert Wood, the top U.S. envoy to the U.N.-hosted Conference on Disarmament, says...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Senior Daesh commanders have fled southern suburbs of Damascus as regime forces shelled their last pockets in the capital, preparing the ground for a possible assault on the militant stronghold, well-informed sources said Thursday. Abu Naser al-Janadi, one of...

(Eqtsad)- The harsh reality of war has scattered Syrians throughout the globe in a desperate search for safety and stability that have been missing in Syria for years. Morocco was one of the countries that took in Syrians since the very beginning, as approximately 3,500 Syrians have...

  Around 500 Syrian refugees left southern Lebanon on Wednesday under an agreement between authorities in Beirut and Damascus that provides for their return to their home country, AFP's correspondent said. The UN's refugee agency said it was aware of the returns but was not...

A media group agreed to release an ex-Playboy model from a deal that stopped her from discussing an alleged affair with US President Donald Trump, both sides confirmed Wednesday. The deal was reached between American Media Inc., which owns tabloid magazine The National Enquirer, and...

Valery Gerasimov, the head of Russia's military general staff, and NATO Supreme Allied Commander Curtis Scaparrotti will meet on Thursday in Azerbaijan to discuss Syria, the TASS news agency reported, citing the Russian defense ministry. Gerasimov has arrived in Baku ahead of talks that...

The leaders of Germany and France meet on Thursday to try to work out a common position on reforming the euro zone, a sensitive issue that is testing the new government in Berlin just a month after it took office. Chancellor Angela Merkel, who hosts President Emmanuel Macron for the...

Liverpool forward Mohamed Salah hopes to stay clear at the top of the scoring charts to claim this season's Premier League Golden Boot award, the Egypt international adding that his team mates were eager to help him achieve the goal. The 25-year-old has scored 30 goals in 32 league...

(The Daily Beast)- The overwhelming majority of Syrian air defense systems that responded to last weekend's coalition strikes did so only after all 105 of the guided missiles had already successfully struck their targets. According to U.S. government sources with knowledge of the April...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- U.S.-led forces made a prisoner swap with Daesh in the eastern countryside of Deir Ezzor city, local activists said on Wednesday. 20 captives from each side were exchanged in al-Omar gas field, as a second swap deal will take place in a month, activist Abdul Rahman...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime forces on Wednesday have launched aerial campaign on rebels’ bastions in the eastern Qalamoun as key town in the region reached an evacuation deal brokered by Russia. Four fighters were killed in eastern Qalamoun Mountains, which has been hit by 50 barrel...

Syrian regime forces shelled the last pockets in Damascus controlled by the Islamic State group (ISIS), preparing the ground for a possible assault on the militant stronghold, a monitor said Wednesday. After fully retaking the Eastern Ghouta region on the edge of the capital, the Syrian...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu issues a veiled warning to Iran, saying his country will defend itself against anyone that tries to harm it. The premier's remarks at a Memorial Day ceremony on Wednesday come amid rising tensions between Israel and Iran over an alleged Israeli...

A UN security team was fired at on Tuesday while on a reconnaissance mission in the Syrian town of Douma to prepare the deployment of experts investigating an alleged chemical attack, officials said. "Shots were fired yesterday at a UN security team doing a reconnaissance in Douma," a...