France will deploy its aircraft carrier to support operations against Islamic State in Syria and Iraq, President Francois Hollande said on Thursday, bolstering Paris' firepower in the region amid international efforts to launch Syrian peace talks. The carrier is usually accompanied by an...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Al Qaeda's Syria branch, the Nusra Front, has accused Islamic State of carrying out a car bomb targeted an independent religious society made up of Syrian scholars in Arsal town northeast Lebanon Thursday that killed at least nine people, a source with close ties with Nusra...

The United Nations Children's Fund, UNICEF warned on Wednesday that human smugglers have lowered their rates for refugees who travel to Europe via the Mediterranean Sea as weather conditions worsen in winter. Smugglers made over 50 percent reductions for refugees who have been trying to...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian rebels took control of strategic hill northeast Hama province late on Thursday after heavy clashes with regime troops and their allied militias, killing at least 50, a rebel commander said. Ajnad al Sham, key rebel unit in the Army of Conquest, and other Islamist...