Islamic State militants on Saturday captured most of Palmyra after breaking through regime army defenses and securing the heights around the ancient city in eastern Syria following a surprise assault, a monitoring group and rebels said. The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Thirteen female detainees have been released due to a prisoner swap deal with the Syrian regime, local reporter said Saturday. The women, who arrived the embattled Eastern Ghouta suburbs, were detained by the notorious Air Force Intelligence.   In its turn, Faylaq...

(The Daily Star)- A suspected car bomb outside a soccer stadium in central Istanbul wounded around 20 people on Saturday hours after the end of a match between two of Turkey's top teams, Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu said. Soylu, speaking in parliament during a budget hearing, said around...

The Turkish army and its allies on Saturday entered ISIS's bastion of Al-Bab in northern Syria, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group said. "They entered Al-Bab from the northwest after violent clashes with the militants as Turkish artillery bombarded the town," the...