( The Washington Times )- U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson issued an ultimatum to Russia on Tuesday: Side with the U.S. and likeminded countries on Syria, or embrace Iran, militant group Hezbollah and embattled Syrian leader Bashar Assad. As he embarked on a trip to Moscow...

( The Guardian )- Rex Tillerson’s plane touched down in Moscow on Tuesday amid a smoky haze caused by a fire at a nearby rubbish dump. More than one observer found the metaphor irresistible. The US approach to Syria – the term “policy” would dignify it with a coherence it does not deserve – is...

Preparations began on Tuesday to move people out of two besieged pro-government Syrian towns and two opposition-held ones in a deal between the warring sides, a pro-government commander and a war monitoring group said. The Shi'ite towns of al-Foua and Kefraya in the northwestern province of...

Borussia Dortmund's team bus was damaged and a player was injured following three explosions near the vehicle while it was on its way to Tuesday's Champions League game at home to AS Monaco, police said. The match, a quarter-final first leg, was called off and rescheduled for Wednesday....

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime warplanes bombed rebel-held areas in Latakia province, killing two people, including a child, activists said Tuesday. 8 more people were wounded in Habboushiya village that overlooks on the western countryside of Idlib province where regime forces seek to capture...

Any new US action in Syria "will not go unanswered", Iran's Defense Minister Hossein Dehgan warned Tuesday after America threatened to follow up a strike last week with more attacks. The United States last week fired a volley of cruise missiles at a Syrian airbase in response to an alleged...

The United States is looking into whether Russia was complicit in an alleged chemical weapons attack by the Syrian military on civilians, but has not yet made a determination, a senior administration official said Tuesday. The official said the US was continuing to gather intelligence on...

Iraqi cleric Moqtada al-Sadr Tuesday warned Syrian President Bashar Assad that he risked suffering the same fate as slain Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi if he did not step down. The maverick cleric had last week condemned the suspected deadly use of chemical weapons by Assad's forces against...

( The New Arab )- Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Tuesday that Ankara's findings showed the Syrian government still possessed chemical weapons capacity and urged for measures to prevent its potential usage. Speaking to state-run broadcaster TRT Haber in Italy, Cavusoglu...

U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson carried a unified message from world powers to Moscow on Tuesday, denouncing Russian support for Syria and taking up America's traditional role as leader of the West on behalf of Donald Trump's administration. Tillerson took off for Russia on...

A Reuters photographer at Moscow's Vnukovo airport said on Tuesday there was black smoke rising from a part of the airfield where planes are parked. U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is due to land at the airport on Tuesday afternoon to begin a visit to Moscow. The photographer said when...

The United States has concluded that Russia knew ahead of time that Syria would launch a chemical weapons attack last week, a senior U.S. official says. The official offered circumstantial elements to back up his claim, but no concrete proof. And others in the Trump administration cautioned...

Russia should abandon its support for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad after his repeated use of chemical weapons and join the United States to map out a peaceful future for Syria, U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said on Tuesday. Tillerson's comments came an hour before he flew to...

G7 foreign ministers have failed to agree on whether fresh sanctions should be imposed on Syrian President Bashar Assad or his ally Russia, Italy's Foreign Minister Angelino Alfano said Tuesday. "At the moment there is no consensus on new sanctions as an effective instrument," he said at the...

Hundreds of Syrian students gathered on Tuesday outside the United Nations headquarters in Damascus to protest last week's U.S. strike on a government air base. Demonstrators waved the two-star flag of the Syrian government and pictures of President Bashar Assad outside the U.N.'s office in...

G7 foreign ministers insist there can be no peace solution in war-torn Syria with President Bashar Assad in power, France's Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault said Tuesday. The top diplomats, meeting as U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson readies for crunch talks in Moscow, were agreed...

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Syrian government warplanes dropped barrel bombs on rebel-held areas of Hama province Tuesday, a day after the United States said their use could lead to further U.S. strikes in Syria. A Syrian military source denied the Observatory report and...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The Syrian Network for Human Rights accused Russia of killing 24 displaced people, including 16 children, from Aleppo when its warplanes struck a sheltering area in Idlib city on March 15.  The Britain-based monitoring group said eye-witnesses and footage proved the...

The Iraqi military says ISIS has lost more than three-fourths of the territory it seized when it swept across the country in the summer of 2014. Brig. Gen. Yahya Rasool, a military spokesman, says the extremist group currently controls less than 30,000 square kilometers (12,000 sq. miles) in...

  (Zaman Al Wasl)- Powerful Kurdish PYD militia stormed an Arab village in the northeastern countryside of Raqqa city on Monday, arresting all men and humiliating the women, over claims they have links with ISIS. Three people in al-Awad village were also wounded when the PYD opened fire...