(Zaman Al Wasl)- Islamic State fighters stormed early on Friday Nusra Front's checkpoints in the embattled Yarmouk refugee camp southern Damascus, a day after both sides agreed on provisional ceasefire deal and made a prisoner swap, sources said. ISIS' surprise attack on Nusra Front targeted...

Warplanes struck twice Friday on the outskirts of Syria's Douma, northeast of Damascus, the first raids there since a cessation of hostilities agreement went into effect, activists said. Rami Abdulrahman from the Britain-based the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights which monitors the...

Turkey's state-run news agency says a court has sentenced two Syrian smugglers to four years and two months each in prison over the death of 3-year-old Syrian boy Aylan Kurdi and four other people. Anadolu Agency said Friday the court convicted the two of human trafficking but acquitted them...

A record 1.25 million asylum seekers arrived in the European Union in 2015, more than double the figure from the previous year, official figures showed on Friday. The Eurostat statistics agency said Syrians were the largest group at nearly 363,000 followed by 178,200 Afghans and 121,500 Iraqis.