A double bomb attack outside a Shiite shrine near Syria's capital killed at least 20 people Saturday, in the latest in repeated deadly strikes on the revered site, state media said. The official SANA news agency said a suicide bomber and a car bomb struck at the entrance to the Sayyida Zeinab...

U.S.-backed Syrian forces made new territorial gains against Islamic State on Saturday, moving closer to another of its major strongholds in northern Syria, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. The Observatory said the Syria Democratic Forces (SDF), bringing together Kurdish...

Forces aligned with Libya's unity government said on Friday they had taken control of the port of Sirte, making further gains in Islamic State's North African stronghold. Brigades largely composed of fighters from Misrata advanced this week to the perimeter of Sirte's city center, after...

Reporting by Abdul Salam Haj Bakri; Translation by Yusra Ahmed    (Zaman Al Wasl)- Children of Jabal al-Akrad and al-Turkmen, have suffered of displacement for more than three times, most of them have lost a father or a brother, or even a mother, some of them lost an arm or a leg or...