HATAY, Turkey: member of the Syrian regime army deserted and fled to Turkey on Thursday, security sources have said. The soldier was found...
HATAY, Turkey: member of the Syrian regime army deserted and fled to Turkey on Thursday, security sources have said. The soldier was found...
GENEVA: The Syrian opposition at Geneva IV peace talks said Wednesday they had been told by UN mediator Staffan de Mistura that the...
WASHINGTON: Kurdish forces will likely participate in the liberation of Islamic State's de facto Syrian capital "in one form or fashion", the general...
GENEVA: The aerial bombardment of eastern Aleppo by Russian and Syrian forces was a war crime, a UN panel on Syria said on...
CAIRO: Sinai will remain Egyptian territory, Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi declared this week amid rumors of plans to resettle Palestinians in the desert...
Beirut: Islamic State group fighters withdrew from much of the Syrian oasis city of Palmyra overnight, a monitor said Thursday, but government forces...
Tunis: A group of visitors at a Tunisia zoo has stoned a crocodile to death, authorities in the capital said Wednesday, denouncing the...
Algiers: Algeria's President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, who has rarely appeared in public since a crippling stroke in 2013, marks his 80th birthday on Thursday...
MOGADISHU, Somalia: A bomb in Somali capital Mogadishu killed an intelligence official and left three civilians injured on Wednesday, police said. Police Capt....
ISTANBUL: Turkish municipalities revealed on Wednesday that nearly four percent of Istanbul’s population are Syrian refugees. The Marmara Municipalities’ Union published a report...
Jerusalem: A Palestinian stabbed and wounded a settler whose home he broke into in the occupied West Bank before the Israeli shot him...
Damascus: Two rare busts rescued from the Islamic State group in the ancient city of Palmyra and restored in Italy have been returned...
Beirut: Heavy fighting between the Syrian army and rebels has shaken several Damascus suburbs, leaving 13 regime fighters dead, a monitoring group said...
ISTANBUL: A film looking into the life of civil defense volunteers in war-torn Syria has won an Oscar for best short documentary. “We...
BEIRUT: Russian-backed Syrian government forces will enter the Islamic State-held city of Palmyra "very soon", a Syrian military source said on Wednesday, as...
Baghdad: Twenty-six thousand Iraqis fled west Mosul in the 10 days since security forces launched a major push to retake it from jihadists,...
GENEVA: Almost 1,500 children have been killed and a similar number recruited by the warring sides in the Yemeni conflict, the UN said...
SANAA, Yemen: The Shia Houthi militia group has blocked Stephen O'Brien, a senior UN official, from entering Yemen’s southwestern city of Taiz to...
