Yemen's warring parties have agreed to a prisoner exchange before the Muslim holy month of Ramadan in early June, sources from both delegations told Reuters on Thursday. The decision was a show of goodwill between the Iran-allied Houthis and Yemen's Saudi-backed exile government as peace talks...

Syria's devastating war has killed more than 280,000 people, activists said Thursday in a new toll for the five-year conflict. The toll of 282,283 includes 81,436 civilians, among them 14,040 children and 9,106 women, said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. Non-extremist rebel fighters...

(Eqtsad)- With the start of the harvest season each year, the regime forces and sectarian militias that aid it purposefully ignite fires whether by plane or by shelling fields from the checkpoints surrounding the cities and towns in Homs’ besieged northern countryside. Eqtsad’s...

Writing by Abdullah Al Ghadawi (Zaman Al Wasl)- The war on al-Fallujah is complicated and holds particular symbolism, on the surface a war of trickery controlled by excuses and an ideological and sectarian war when read between the lines.  It is a righteous war where the nullification of...