Australia's parliament was hit by a second day of protests by anti-offshore detention center activists Thursday with two people abseiling down the building to unfurl a banner reading "close the bloody camps now". While the pair scaled Parliament House a dozen others waded into a forecourt...

Airstrikes and rockets in northern Syria knocked out two medical centers dedicated to women Friday and killed at least 12, including two people in one of the health facilities, according to opposition activists, a charity group and a hospital manager. Warplanes and artillery shelling also...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 46 regime soldiers and allied militants have been killed by Syrian rebels in coastal Latakia province as regime forces launch major attack on Jabal al-Turkman, pro-Assad activists said, accusing Turkish army of hitting army strongholds. The regime forces backed by the...

The Syrian regime has demanded rebels pull out of East Aleppo and and civilians leave the area, as Damascus continued with an offensive to recapture the city's opposition-held sector. The army, which has besieged the east for months, also demanded that rebels distribute food to civilians,...