Islamic State militants in northern Syria are putting up "stiff resistance" to attacks by Turkish-backed rebel fighters, Turkey's military said on Wednesday, almost two months after it launched an incursion to drive them away from its border. Supported by Turkish tanks and air strikes, the...

A senior British lawmaker has accused Russia of targeting civilians in Syria in the same way the Nazis behaved at Guernica during the Spanish civil war of the 1930s. Andrew Mitchell, a lawmaker in Prime Minister Theresa May's ruling Conservatives and a former Secretary of State for...

At least 14 people were killed and 36 others wounded when a gunman attacked a Shia shrine in the Afghan capital Kabul, authorities said Tuesday. Interior Ministry Spokesman Sediq Sediqqi said one of the victims of the attack was a police officer. The attack occurred when worshippers...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Tens of Khan al-Sheeh camp locals in the Western Ghouta suburbs protested the difficult humanitarian conditions they suffer in the light of the enforced siege and almost daily targeting of the camp by regime forces and Russian warplanes using all kinds of weapons including...