Syrian government jets have reportedly bombed a village in Latakia, killing at least twenty people. Activists say this is the latest push by President Bashar al-Assad's government to reclaim territory in the western heartland of Assad's Alawite sect. Al Jazeera's Charles Stratford has this...
Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says it documented deaths of more than 106,000 people, but warns that actual death toll could be twice as high, according to DPA. The real death toll in the Syrian war could be more than 200,000 people, a...
Iraqi Kurdish President Massoud Barzani reacted Saturday to the deadly clashes between Kurdish militia and al Qaeda linked fighters in Syria by threatening to intervene. The president of Iraqi Kurdistan has threatened to intervene in neighboring Syria to defend the large...
A series of car bombs in mainly Shi'ite areas of Baghdad killed 57 people and wounded more than 150 on Saturday, in what appeared to be coordinated attacks on people celebrating the end of the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan. The 12 separate blasts targeting markets, busy shopping...
