Syrian regime's warplanes have conducted more than 30 raids on rebel-held neighborhoods of Damascus, leaving dozens killed and wounded, activists and monitoring groups said Wednesday. The Syrian Network for Human Rights said at least 14 people, including 3 children and 2 women,...

Yemen's pro-rebel ex-president Ali Abdullah Saleh voiced hope Wednesday that a halt to a Saudi-led air campaign in support of his exiled successor would open the way for renewed dialogue. "While the decision to start the attacks and the aggression was rejected, the decision to stop the...

 The leader of Islamic State, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, has been seriously wounded in an air strike in western Iraq, sources have told the Guardian. A source in Iraq with connections to the terror group revealed that Baghdadi suffered serious injuries during an attack by the US-led...

Canada has said it will issue a passport to Al Jazeera journalist Mohamed Fahmy, who remains in Egypt on bail while awaiting trial for aiding a "terrorist organisation". Fahmy, who was born in Egypt and is a naturalised Canadian citizen, was freed from jail in February. His original...