MOSCOW:Russia says rebel fighters have expressed readiness to lay down their arms and leave the Syrian town of Douma, near the capital Damascus. Russia’s RIA news agency quoted a Russian General Staff official Stanislav Gadzhimagomedov as saying the group is in touch with Russian officers ...

BEIRUT: Air strikes on a rebel-held village in northwest Syria early Tuesday killed 12 people and put a nearby field clinic out of service, a monitor said. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group said a first round of raids, which were likely carried out by Russian jets, ...

In Syria, government army has retaken the control of Aleppo after the last rebel fighter evacuated from the battered city.14 Turkish Army soldiers killed in SyriaThe last group of rebels and their families were evacuated under a deal that gave the army and its allies full control of the city.

BEIRUT: (APP) Syrian government troops seized five new districts of eastern Aleppo on Tuesday, including the strategic Shaar neighbourhood, a monitoring group said.According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, the fresh advance puts the government in control of more than 70 percent of the ...

BEIRUT: (APP) The Islamic State jihadist group on Monday claimed responsibility for a suicide bombing that killed more than 30 Syrian rebel fighters in a blast near the Turkish border.IS, in a statement published on Twitter and the messaging service Telegram, said a suicide bomber detonated an ...