The United Nations hopes that political talks between the warring sides in Syria will clinch local ceasefires to allow vital food and medicines to reach millions of civilians, the U.N. humanitarian chief said on Thursday. Valerie Amos, in an interview with Reuters a day after an...

The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) has seized the city of Manbij east Aleppo after two weeks of violent clashes with Islamist rebels, local sources told Zaman Alwasl. Rebels withdrew for lack of ammunition, activist said, ISIL's reinforcements never stopped...

Beaten, burned, bruised, strangled bodies lying on a dirty floor. Some show signs of starvation, others are missing their eyes, a number of them appear to have been electrocuted. The horror is nearly impossible to describe… but it is hardly surprising . The thousands...

Turkish Anadolu Agency News has obtained new documents showing evidence of war crimes against dissidents . The New York Times newspaper said that Obama’s administration first learned last November about a harrowing trove of photographs that were said to document...