A fourth consecutive day of heavy regime bombing raids on the rebel-held enclave of Eastern Ghouta near Damascus killed 51 civilians Thursday, a monitor said. The civilian toll was first reported at nine Thursday morning but almost immediately began to rise, mirroring...

(Zaman Al Wasl) The Islamic State's policy in recruiting children and turning schools into shelters for the displaced has contributed to the suspension of the educational process in Deir Ez Zor province, making more than 300,000 children out of school for almost three years. Khaled...

Israel's supreme court Thursday rejected an appeal by three members of a Jewish gang convicted of kidnapping, beating and burning alive a Palestinian teenager in 2014. The decision upholds life sentences for two of them and a 21-year jail term for the third over the chilling...

Turkey on Thursday said it planned to host in Istanbul a new three-way summit on Syria with the presidents of Russia and Iran aimed at reviving a drive to bring peace to the country. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin agreed to hold the summit in...