Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said Turkey and Iran "should play the role of mediator" in the conflicts in Iraq and Syria. During a joint press conference with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani in Tehran on Tuesday, Erdogan said "history and culture has been slaughtered in...

(Translation by Yusra Ahmed) A confidential document issued by the Syrian regime Intelligence, branch 291, in 2014, showed that Syrian army had deliberately facilitated the cross of Islamic State fighters into the countryside of Salamiyeh city in Hama province where the...

LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The deaths of three Red Cross and Red Crescent workers in unrelated attacks in Mali, Yemen and Syria within hours of each other this week were condemned as "profoundly shocking and unacceptable" by the organization's head on Tuesday. Elhadj As...

Islamic State fighters killed at least 37 people in a  Syria n village near the city of Hama overnight, a group monitoring the war said, part of a pattern of attacks by the ultra-radical force in government-held areas of western Syria. Syrian state television put the number...