e United States underestimates the long-term impact of civilian deaths on the success of military missions and is failing to implement lessons learned from 15 years in Afghanistan, according to a report released Wednesday. While the US military is committed to avoiding civilian casualties, the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Islamic State had a surprise withdrawal from nine villages in the northern countryside of Aleppo, sources said. According to the sources, Isis withdrew from Sandaf village and Kafr Kalbeen and Kaljabreen towns and hence lifted the blockade off Mare’ city. Isis as well...

Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Eqtsad)- Strokes and heart attacks as causes of death have risen in Syria to become almost two third of the total natural causes. Dr. Hussein Nofal, the head of Forensic medicine in the Syrian regime's Ministry of Health reported that stroke and heart attack and...

Syrian government air strikes on rebel-held neighborhoods of divided second city Aleppo killed at least 15 civilians Wednesday, an activist said. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said at least 10 of the dead came in raids just outside the Al-Bayan hospital in the Shaar neighborhood....