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...

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,...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian and Russian warplanes continued Friday its deadly air strikes on rebel-held areas in northern and western Syria in an initial death tool reaches 75, mostly from a rebel-held town near Damascus and Aleppo, according to monitoring groups and activists.   At least 47...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 47 people were killed and about 200 wounded after Syrian regime forces fired missiles into a market place in a town northeast Damascus, activists and monitoring groups said on Friday. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said government forces fired 12 missiles at...