(The Telegraph)- Every year, a few hundred thousand hardy tourists make it to the snowy town of Akureyri in the far north of Iceland, braving 70mph winds and freezing temperatures in search of ski slopes, whale watching trips and the Northern Lights. Yet the town’s newest...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The Tribes Army, or Jaysh al-Ashaer, rebel group operation in northeastern Syria, has joined a Kurdish-led alliance that backed by the United States and Russia, source told Zaman al-Wasl on Wednesday. As the Syrian Democratic Forces press more gains west and east Syria, taking...

The government of  Bashar al-Assad and rebel groups accepted a plan for a cessation of hostilities to begin on Saturday and the United States warned it would be hard to hold the country together if the fighting did not stop. With hostilities reported on several fronts,...

Islamic State fighters have tightened their grip on a Syrian regime supply route to Aleppo on Tuesday as the army battled to retake the road as part of its campaign to seize the city, Reuters reported. The Islamic State assault has targeted a desert road which the...