London's Heathrow Airport says dozens of flights have been cancelled amid forecasts of snow and strong winds in Britain. Heathrow, Europe's busiest airport, said 80 out of about 1,350 flights scheduled Thursday have been cancelled pre-emptively because of the wintry weather. Britain's...

The Russian Defense Ministry said Thursday it had started changing the make-up of its strike force in Syria as part of a previously announced partial drawdown, Russian news agencies reported. The ministry was cited as saying that the first six SU-24 bombers had already been withdrawn, but...

An iconic photo of three-year-old Syrian boy Aylan Kurdi washed up dead on a Turkish beach had a greater impact on fundraising efforts for Syrian refugees than hundreds of thousands of deaths, a study has shown. The photo of Kurdi appeared in media across the world in the days after he...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Powerful Kurdish PYD militia allowed dozens of families to return back to their homes in al-Arbeyn village in al-Hasaka province after two years of displacement where each family paid 50,000 Syrian Pounds, local activists said. A local activist, who spoke on condition...