Reporting by Faris Rifai (Zaman Al Wasl)- Ajnad al-Sham fighter attacked days ago al-Asali Martyrs school in al-Qadam, southern suburb of  Damascus, assaulting a number of teachers, beating them and cursing them to prevent them from opening the school. The situation created panic among...

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry will meet his Russian counterpart in Switzerland on Saturday to discuss Syria, officials said on Wednesday, as a devastating bombing campaign of the city of Aleppo intensified. The Syrian government launched an assault to capture rebel-held areas of Aleppo...

The U.S. military has taken advanced system into Iraq to fight Daesh’s flying explosives, a U.S.-led coalition’s spokesman said Wednesday. “We've seen the enemy use a variety of drones and improvised drones and modified drones,” Col. John Dorian told reporters in a videoconference...

European Union (EU) countries need to start phasing out coal substantially from their energy mix for the EU to be able to hit its climate targets as outlined in the COP21 agreement in Paris, Patrick Graichen, executive director of Agora Energiewende, said at the World Energy Congress in Istanbul...