Iraq launched air strikes on Daesh (ISIS) targets inside neighboring Syria on Tuesday, destroying two buildings housing 40 fighters and weapons, its military said. F-16 fighter jets destroyed a building where members of the ultra-hardline Sunni militant group were storing weapons,...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Leishmaniasis disease has spread in the eastern town of al-Myadeen due to the piles of rubbish and lack of medical care, activists told Zaman al-Wasl, reporting more than 70 cases.  The ‘intracellular protozoan parasite’ spread in the eastern countryside of...

Hundreds of Syrians left Turkey on Tuesday for terror-free regions of Syria as part of ongoing voluntary return program. Taking refuge in Turkey due to civil war in Syria, 400 Syrians -- including women and children -- from different parts of Turkey were voluntarily repatriated from...

The Syrian regime army said Monday Daesh (ISIS) militants had been cleared from a rugged area in southeastern Syria, where they had been holding out for months against a campaign to defeat them. In a statement, Syria's army high command said it had taken full control of the Tulul...