Two women identifying themselves as Italian aid workers kidnapped in Syria have appeared in a video urging their government to seek their release. The video, filmed in mid-December, appeared online Wednesday night and purportedly shows Vanessa Marzullo and Greta Ramelli,...
(Reuters)- Kurdish forces have regained control of around 70 percent of the Syrian town of Kobani near the Turkish border after pushing back ISIS fighters that have spent months besieging it, a group monitoring the war said on Wednesday. Backed by U.S-led air strikes, Kurdish forces made...
DAMASCUS(AFP)- Syria will award 50 percent of vacant government posts to relatives of soldiers and government employees killed or paralyzed in the country's conflict, according to a law issued on Wednesday. The law, decreed by President Bashar Assad after passing parliament earlier in the...
