Syria's official news agency SANA says a mortar round has hit an upscale central Damascus neighborhood, killing a child and wounding four people. It is not uncommon for Damascus to be shelled. Sunday's attack targeted the posh neighborhood of Abu Rummaneh, which houses hotels and several...

(By Lama Shammas; Translation by Yusra Ahmed) ISTANBUL (Zaman Al Wasl)- Osmanbey's Market is considered the largest and most important commercial centre in Istanbul, where shops of wholesale and retail gather in an area famous of trading clothes, finest fabrics and Turkish threads. The market...

Ahrar al-Sham Islamic movement on Saturday has killed a senior regime army officer by an explosive device planted near his car in Damascus, the dominant rebel group said in statement. The Salafist group gave no further details over the attack that killed Brigadier General Raeef Ali al-Hasan and...

A ceasefire in a Syrian town near the Lebanese border and in two villages to the north has broken down after renewed heavy shelling, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group said on Saturday. The truce between the Syrian army and the Lebanese group Hezbollah on...