One of the Syrian army's most prominent leaders was killed Wednesday when his vehicle struck a landmine believed to have been planted by the Islamic State militant group (ISIS), which is attempting to ...

Issam Zahreddine, right, major general of the Syrian Republican Guard, talks with a civilian in the eastern city of Deir Ezzor on September 10. Zahreddine, one of the most public faces of the Syrian ...

A Syrian general accused over the 2012 deaths of prominent US journalist Marie Colvin and French photographer Remi Ochlik has been killed by an explosion in the east of the war-torn country. Issam ...

Brigadier general of the Republican Guard and the commander of operations in Deir al-Zor, Issam Zahreddine, was killed in a mine explosion in the Hawija-Sakr area inside the city of Deir al-Zor, ...

A Syrian general known for his fight against ISIS — and accused in the death of veteran American war correspondent Marie Colvin, who died in shelling in 2012 — is reported to have died Wednesday on ...

A top commander in the Syrian army has apologised after apparently warning those who had fled the country not to return, saying on state television: "If you know what is good for you, none of you ...

Issam Zahreddine reportedly died on the battlefield. The family of Marie Colvin, a celebrated U.S. war correspondent killed in Syria in 2012, has... A Syrian general known for his fight against ISIS — ...