Supporters of Bernie Sanders disrupted the first day of the Democratic convention on Monday, repeatedly chanting and booing mentions of Hillary Clinton's name as the party's hopes for a show of unity dissolved into frequent chaos. Speakers in the convention's first hours struggled to carry...

Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- A member of pro-Syrian regime Baath Battalions militia was killed by Asayish, the Kurdish security forces, in the northeastern city of Hasaka on Monday, such an act that has sparked tensions between the two factions, activists said. Activist...

A car bomb blast on Monday hit an upmarket area of Damascus housing several government buildings, Syrian state news agency SANA reported, saying there were "several wounded". The explosion took place in front of a 10-storey building in the Kafar Sousse district in the southwest of the war-torn...

A failed Syrian asylum seeker who blew himself up outside a German music festival had made a video pledging allegiance to ISIS, in the second attack claimed by the extremists in Germany in a week. The 27-year-old assailant wounded 15 people, four of them seriously, near a cafe in the southern...