(Middle East Eye)- A new UN peace proposal to end a 19-month war in Yemen appears aimed at sidelining exiled president, Abd Rabbuh Hadi, and setting up a government of less divisive figures, according to a copy seen by Reuters. Hadi fled the armed advance of the Iranian-allied Houthi...

The White House said on Thursday that either the Syrian government or Russia was responsible for a deadly airstrike in Syria that hit a school and led to the deaths of 26 civilians. "We don't know yet that it was the Assad regime or the Russians that carried out the airstrike, but we know it...

(The Daily Star)- Russia said Thursday it had nothing to do with air strikes on a school in Syria's rebel-held Idlib province that killed 22 children. "The Russian Federation has nothing to do with this terrible tragedy, with this attack," foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said,...

The Turkish army hit 94 Daesh and nine PKK/PYD targets in northern Syria early Thursday, the military said. Thursday's strikes were part of Turkey's Operation Euphrates Shield launched in late August to clear the northern Syrian border area of terrorists. It is now in its 65th day....