( Bloomberg )- Mexico has surpassed Iraq and Afghanistan to become the world’s second-most deadly conflict zone after Syria, according to a study of wars around the globe. The number of fatalities from the expanding war among Mexico’s criminal cartels grew to 23,000 in 2016,...

A US-backed alliance of Syrian Arab and Kurdish fighters on Wednesday captured the key city of Tabqa and the nearby dam from ISIS extremists, a monitor told AFP. "The Syrian Democratic Forces seized control of Tabqa and the adjacent dam," said Rami Abdel Rahman of the Syrian Observatory for...

Air strikes killed at least 11 people, including four children, in a village north of the Syrian city of Raqqa overnight, a war monitoring group said on Wednesday. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said warplanes, thought to belong to the U.S.-led coalition against ISIS, hit...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The Mu'tasim Brigade, part of the Euphrates Shield, announced Wednesday the mandate of the International Coalition for the receipt of 11 villages in the northern suburb of Aleppo from the Syrian Democratic Forces militia (SDF), which is dominated by the militia of the...