Paris (AFP) - French jets will be able to launch air strikes on Islamic State targets from an aircraft carrier in the eastern Mediterranean from Monday, Defence Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said. "It will be operational from tomorrow," Le Drian told Europe 1 radio on Sunday, nine...

(Translation by Yusra Ahmed) (Zaman Al Wasl)- Statistics showed that Bashar al-Assad's war on Syrian people has caused permanent disability for about 300 thousand Syrians, half of them children under 16 years old. Samira Yousuf, 4-year-old girl from Taldo, the biggest town in al Hola city...

President Barack Obama says Russia needs to make a strategic decision to go after the Islamic State group, not the moderate opposition forces trying to topple Syrian President Bashar Assad. He says initial military operations by Russia did not add to efforts to deter IS, and in some ways,...

(Zaman Al Wasl)-  At least 10 civilians, mostly children, have been killed in suspected Russian air strikes on southern city of Daraa, activists said Saturday. Syrian regime air force backed by Russian warplanes has extended its brutal aerial campaign on rebel-held province of Daraa....