WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. fighter and bomber planes have launched five attacks against Islamic State militants near Kobani, Syria and five in Iraq since Friday, Central Command said on Saturday. The Kobani strikes "suppressed or destroyed" nine Islamic State...

(Reuters) - A mortar fired from the Gaza Strip hit southern Israel , the Israeli military said on Saturday, the second such incident since a seven-week war in the Palestinian enclave ended in August. Hours after the projectile struck harmlessly, there was no Israeli...

By Zaman staff; Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl) - Many cases of hepatitis spread among Syrian refugees in Ersal , the number is not certain, as many case are still undiagnosed. Dr. Kasim Zin revealed that 170 case of Hepatitis...

Moderate rebels clashed with Al-Qaeda affiliate Al-Nusra Front in Idlib province of northwest Syria on Friday, a monitoring group said. The clashes, near a Syrian Revolutionary Front bastion in Deir Sinbel village, came days after Al-Nusra took over Front checkpoints, according to...