(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian rebels killed at least 20 regime troops in an overnight attack in eastern Qalamoun region, rebel spokesman told Zaman al-Wasl on Monday. Jaish Tahrir al-Sham backed by Martyr Ahmed al-Abdu Units launched a surprise attack on regime checkpoints near the town of...

More than 390 allegations of chemical weapon use in Syria have been recorded by the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) since 2014, the British envoy to the group said Monday. “The Syrian regime has an abhorrent record of using chemical weapons against its own...

Syrian regime TV is airing interviews with nearly a dozen doctors and medics who say they found no trace of poisonous gas in the town of Douma, where opposition activists and first responders say a chemical attack by government forces killed more than 78 people. The suspected attack on...

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov Monday denied allegations made by the U.S. envoy to the global chemical weapons watchdog that Russia may have tampered with the site of an alleged chemical weapons attack in Syria's Douma. "I can guarantee that Russia has not tampered with the...

A Russian journalist who wrote about Russian mercenaries in Syria has died from injuries he sustained after falling from a balcony. Maxim Borodin, 32, died at a hospital on Sunday after falling from his fifth-floor balcony in Yekaterinburg on Thursday, according to the Associated Press...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian rebels in Dumayr east of Damascus have agreed to lay down their arms and to hand over the town to the regime army, local activists said Monday. The ‘surrender deal’ in the strategic town followed the fall of Eastern Ghouta and its capital, Douma. Such a victory...

Turkey's stance against the Syrian regime and Bashar al-Assad has never changed, Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Hakan Cavusoglu said on Monday. Speaking in Lefkosa, the capital city of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC), Hakan Cavusoglu welcomed the U.S.-led airstrikes on...

European Union foreign ministers looked unlikely to join the United States Monday in imposing new economic sanctions on Russia or Syria over chemical weapons attacks that prompted the first coordinated Western air strikes in Syria. After Britain and France joined the United States in...

Russia may have tampered with the site of an alleged chemical weapons attack in Syria's Douma, the U.S. envoy to the global watchdog said Monday, calling on the agency to act against ongoing use of banned poisonous weapons. "It is long overdue that this council condemns the Syrian...

British Prime Minister Theresa May will face criticism Monday for bypassing parliament to join weekend air strikes against Syria, with some lawmakers calling for a potentially damaging vote on her future strategy. May, who has regained confidence after winning support for her tough...

Most Asian markets fell on Monday after a U.S.-led strike on Syrian targets fueled fresh concerns over the tinderbox Middle East, though analysts said investors were hopeful the crisis would not escalate. The U.S., Britain and France carried out attacks at the weekend on alleged...

The Russian ruble and shares in some of Russia's biggest companies slid lower Monday, dragged down by the threat of new U.S. sanctions and lower oil prices. Volatility on the Russian market has soared since Washington imposed fresh sanctions against Moscow on April 6, targeting major...

(Zaman Al-Wasl)- Russian military police have withdrawn from Douma, less than ten days of the Moscow-brokered evacuation deal, amid wide deployment for regime troops in the key town of Eastern Ghouta suburbs, local activists said Monday. General Alexander Zourin, the Russian army...

The global chemical watchdog Monday opened emergency talks on the suspected poison gas attack in the Syrian town of Douma, diplomatic sources told AFP. The meeting has "just started," a source, who asked not to be named, said. Earlier the British, Russian and French ambassadors were all...

The African Union on Sunday urged the international community to find a political solution to the Syrian crisis. On Saturday, the U.S., U.K., and France launched airstrikes on the Assad regime's alleged chemical weapons facilities in Syria. The strikes came after the Assad...

France has convinced U.S. President Donald Trump to "stay in Syria long-term" and to limit this weekend's strikes to chemical weapons sites, French President Emmanuel Macron said on Sunday. On Saturday, France in coordination with the U.S. and the U.K. conducted a series of military...

(AP) — Minnesotans slogged through a mid-April storm Sunday that dumped 2 feet (half a meter) of snow on parts of the Upper Midwest, coated roads with ice and battered areas farther south with powerful winds and tornadoes before plowing toward the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic U.S. The...

An Iraqi Turkmen Front’s (ITF) candidate in parliamentary polls survived a suicide car bomb attack in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk, a police official said on Sunday. The incident took place in front of a used car showroom in Hadra district, from where the parliament candidate Ammar...

HOUSTON (AP)- Former first lady Barbara Bush is in "failing health" and won't seek additional medical treatment, a Bush family spokesman said Sunday. "Following a recent series of hospitalizations, and after consulting her family and doctors, Mrs. Bush, now age 92, has decided not to...

President Donald Trump on Sunday defended his use of the phrase "Mission Accomplished" to describe a U.S.-led missile attack on Syria's chemical weapons program, even as his aides stressed continuing U.S. troop involvement and plans for new economic sanctions against Russia for enabling the...