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Scores killed in Syria's Aleppo in bloody Friday

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 60 civilians on Friday were killed in the northern province of Aleppo due to regime's deadly airstrikes and missile attacks on rebel-held towns and neighborhoods, activists told Zaman al Wasl. 20 people have been killed in Russian surface-to-surface missile hit...

Anti-Islamic State activist and his friend beheaded in Turkey

 A prominent member of a secretive monitoring group in Syria that works to expose Islamic State atrocities in the war-ravaged country was found dead Friday along with a friend in southern Turkey, activists said. Members of the monitoring group, known as Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently,...

13 children among at least 22 migrants drowned off Greece

At least 22 migrants, including 13 children, drowned overnight Thursday to Friday off the Greek islands of Kalymnos and Rhodes as they made a desperate bid to reach Europe, while another 144 people were rescued, Greek port authorities said. Off Kalymnos, authorities recovered the bodies of 19...

Syria peace talks under way with 17 countries

Talks on a political solution to the civil war in Syria got under way Friday, with 17 countries plus the United Nations and European Union taking part. Syria itself was not represented, but senior envoys from Turkey, Italy, Britain, Lebanon, Iran, Jordan, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Egypt,...