Sources report that insurgents have pushed back an attack by Hezbollah and Syrian forces in the Zahra section of northwest Aleppo and that they now control the main Street and surroundings, sources said according to EA WorldView. Opposition forces have...

Homs (Syria) (AFP) - The last rebels were set to leave Syria's battleground city of Homs on Friday, handing a symbolic victory to President Bashar al-Assad in what was once dubbed the capital of the revolution. For two years the rebels fought to keep besieging government forces at...

    Syrian activists have posted an audio recording for a commander in Bashar al-Assad’s army showed he was ordering his soldiers to use chemical weapons against rebels in areas affiliated to his control in Idlib and Hama provinces....

Iraq's oil and natural gas reserves hold great importance for Turkey, a country which is highly dependent on imports for energy consumption. Iraq has been struggling to stabilize politically since the US invaded in 2003 and removed the Baathist regime of Saddam...