TASS/. A team of Russian engineers has arrived in Syria to examine the Tabqa Dam in order to draft the plan of its repairs, said Maj. Gen. Oleg Yegorov, a deputy head of the Russian Center for ...

US-backed Syrian forces repelled a major counter-attack by Islamic State (IS) militants holding out at the country's largest dam and in the nearby town of Tabqa, the group and activists said on ...