In response to growing Taliban attacks, Afghan forces have stepped up group assaults on the militants, killing at least 30 in the Nangarhar province bordering Pakistan, an official confirmed on Saturday. Attaullah Khogyani, the spokesman for Nangarhar’s governor, told Anadolu Agency...

Coalition air strikes Saturday killed at least 36 civilians related to Daesh (ISIS) in a militant holdout in eastern Syria near the Iraqi border, a Britain-based monitor said. Seventeen children were among the family members killed in Abu Hassan village of Deir Ezzor province, the...

For the first time, the United States voted Friday against an annual U.N. resolution condemning Israel’s occupation of the Golan Heights, dropping its practice of abstaining in the vote. The nonbinding resolution was adopted in a General Assembly committee by a vote of 151 to 2, with the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Bashar al-Assad has  directed calls for reserve military service in the province of Latakia. These calls for recruitment included a large number of people from Syrian areas who signed agreements of reconciliation. These requests coincided with large media campaigns...