Russian President Vladimir Putin said yesterday that he does not intend to meet Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the near future, Sputnik news agency reported. According to the...

The Trump administration hopes that the US-backed fight against Daesh in its last foothold in northeastern Syria will end within months but American forces will remain to ensure the...

The US will have spent nearly $6 trillion on various wars and military operations aimed at winning the war on international terrorist groups by October 2019, according to a study...

Former Libya dictator Muammar Gaddafi’s son Saif Al-Islam will have a part to play in the country’s peace process, Russian officials have said yesterday. Russia is in regular contact with...

A Trump administration envoy on Tuesday urged Syria’s ally Russia to push for the release of Austin Tice, an American freelance journalist kidnapped in Syria six years ago, Reuters reports....

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is at a crossroads. He has to choose between a truce to deal with the Gaza Strip and Syria, or war on both fronts....

Having won back control of the House of Representatives after eight years, Democrats seem determined to take a closer look into President Donald Trump’s “America First” foreign policy. “The...

Russia supports a recent initiative proposed by the Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to hold an “international peace conference”, a senior official said yesterday. The country’s special envoy to the...

US envoy to Syria James Jeffrey said yesterday that Russia should maintain a “permissive approach” towards Israeli airstrikes in Syria. Speaking with journalists via a conference call, Jeffrey explained...

There are signs of an “imminent merge” between Al-Qaeda and Daesh, the Director of Russia’s Federal Security Service, Alexander Bortnikov, warned yesterday. The success of the Syrian government forces...

At least five massacres were committed in Syria in October, bringing the total number for 2018 to 211, the Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR) announced yesterday. Last month...

A Russian-made MiG-29 fighter plane crashed during a training flight in Egypt, Russia’s state-controlled aircraft manufacturer was quoted by RIA news agency as saying on Saturday. The Egyptian military...

A Russian lawmaker has called for a kiosk to be opened in parliament to serve shawarma with a chief from Syria or the Caucasus manning it. “It is difficult...

The wave of Syrian regime “victories” this year has prompted a narrative change among many politicians and media outlets over the past few months. The government of President Bashar...

Turkey has rejected Syrian government accusation that it is not meeting its obligations under an agreement to create a demilitarised zone around the opposition-held Idlib region. Yesterday, Syrian state...

Although ties between Washington and Tel Aviv are stronger than ever, Israeli leaders are aware of a vastly changing political landscape. The US’ political turmoil and the global power...

The leaders of Russia, Germany, France and Turkey gathered in Istanbul on Saturday for a summit on Syria, where violence this week in the last remaining major rebel stronghold...

All the hype about Russia aside, the special investigation in the US by Robert Mueller has shed light on something concrete: the real story is IsraelGate. Israel’s covert influence...

The Syrian regime has deployed four S-300 anti-aircraft missile defence systems in the north of the country, Israel’s Haaretz newspaper reported yesterday. The newspaper released footage it said was...

Saudi Arabia’s King Salman spoke with Russian president Vladimir Putin by telephone on Thursday to brief him on the investigation into the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, according...

US President Donald Trump said on Monday that he was still not satisfied with what he has heard from Saudi Arabia about the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in...

At least 41 civilians, including some ten children, have been killed as a result of the US-led coalition last Thursday and Friday, which targeted a mosque in the town...

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad met representatives of Russia’s foreign and defence ministries in Damascus on Friday, Russia’s foreign ministry said in a statement on Saturday. During the meeting, they...

Iran has begun withdrawing its fighters from areas in northern and northeastern Syria for more than two weeks, Kuwait’s Al-Jarida reported yesterday. According to the paper, the Iranians have...

President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that Daesh militants had seized nearly 700 hostages in part of Syria controlled by US-backed forces and had executed some of them and...

Russia is due to offer a range of weapons and military equipment to the Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi during his current visit to the country’s coastal city of...

Saudi Arabia is unlikely to employ its so-called “oil weapon” in the diplomatic crisis over the disappearance of a journalist after visiting the country’s consulate in Istanbul. Experience from...

Israel and the US sent secret military delegations to Ukraine to train against the Russian S-300 missile defence system which was shipped to Syria last month.us The Israeli and...

Russian President Vladimir Putin has issued a decree to sign “a comprehensive partnership and strategic cooperation agreement at the highest level” with Egypt, Russia’s Sputnik reported yesterday. Putin’s announcement coincided with...

Brothers Abu Eliyas and Abu Yousef have fought at opposite ends of the insurgency against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, Reuters reports. One is a member of a rebel group that...

Syria’s main hardliner group signalled on Sunday it would abide by the terms of a Russian-Turkish deal to prevent a Syrian government offensive on rebel-held Idlib the day before a...

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Saturday that his country was eager to work with Egypt to boost airline security, three years after a bomb attack downed a Russian plane,...