At least 60 journalists were killed on the job in 2014, including 17 who died as a direct result of covering the civil war in Syria, the Committee to Protect Journalists said in its annual report Tuesday. The New York-based group said it was still investigating...

Turkey has sent at least 625 trucks of humanitarian aid to Iraq up till now, the Disaster and Emergency Management Presidency said Tuesday. The Disaster and Emergency Management Presidency in coordination with the Health Ministry, Turkish Red Crescent, the Turkish...

Rome will send military instructors to Iraq, Italy’s Foreign Minister Paolo Gentiloni said Tuesday. Gentiloni, during a 24-hour visit to Iraq, said in a joint press conference in Baghdad with his Iraqi counterpart, Ibrahim al-Jaafari, that Italy hoped to strengthen its...

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(Reuters) - Satellite imagery indicate that 290 cultural heritage sites in Syria , whose history stretches back to the dawn of civilization, have been damaged by its ongoing civil war, the United Nations' training and research arm (UNITAR) said on Tuesday. Syria's heritage spans...

I will do my best to spread hope in Aleppo this Christmas, but it is hard to celebrate when your city is in ruins. Four years ago, Aleppo was a thriving, cosmopolitan place, but everybody has suffered in Syria’s terrible war. The rich have left, the middle classes have...

BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syria said on Sunday that an Israeli drone had been brought down in the province of Quneitra near the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights. State media said the drone was flying above the village of Hadar when it was downed. It was not immediately...

At least 20 Islamist State (IS) group members were killed in the second failed jihadist bid in a month to take over an air base in eastern Syria, a monitoring group said Sunday. "The IS tried, starting late Saturday, to storm the air base. A total of 20 jihadists were killed...

The Netherlands will train Peshmerga forces in fight against Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, or ISIL, the country’s foreign minister announced on Sunday. In a joint press conference with Kurdish regional administration’s prime minister Nechirvan Barzani in Erbil,...

At least 990 Palestinian refugees have been killed throughout nearly four years of conflict in Syria, the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) said on Sunday. The announcement came during a conference on Palestinian refugees' affairs at the Arab League's Cairo headquarters....

(Reuters) - U.S.-led forces attacked Islamic State targets on Sunday with 13 air strikes in Iraq and three in Syria, using fighter, bomber and other aircraft, the U.S. military said. Four of the Iraq strikes were near Sinjar in northern Iraq, which destroyed Islamic State...

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ANKARA- Turkey could begin training and equipping moderate Syrian opposition fighters before March, Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said Friday. The U.S. State Department said in October that Turkey had agreed to support the program, a core part of President Barack Obama's strategy in Syria...

ISIS has publicly executed a Syrian it accused of planting tracking devices for deadly regime airstrikes, SITE Intelligence reported Saturday. The jihadist group posted footage of the accused being paraded before a crowd but the video deliberately freezes at the point an ISIS fighter pulls...

(Reuters) - Syrian businessmen and trade officials say they are worried the economic lifeline provided by Iran is under strain from plunging oil prices, despite public messages of support from Syria's strongest regional ally. Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has relied on...

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  BEIRUT (The Daily Star)- Lebanese authorities have arrested a Baath Party cell allegedly involved in handing over Syrian rebel fighters to Bashar Assad's regime after kidnapping them in Lebanon, security sources said Friday. The sources told The Daily Star that the all-Lebanese,...

(Reuters) - One million people have been wounded during Syria 's civil war and diseases are spreading as regular supplies of medicine fail to reach patients, the World Health Organization's Syria representative said. A plunge in vaccination rates from 90 percent before the war to...