Huge crowds of black-clad Shiite faithful massed in the Iraqi city of Karbala Saturday, crying and beating their chests to commemorate the prophet's grandson, who died in the seventh century. The holy day of Ashura was marred by attacks in Pakistan and Bangladesh but got under...

Militants loyal to Bashar al-Assad in northern rural Homs have kidnapped 20 women to press on rebels freeing corpses of regime soldiers who were killed in the ongoing clashes, activists said Thursday. Rebels said 15 regime army soldiers have been killed yesterday and 7 tanks and vehicles were...

The Syrian regime and Russian warplanes have carried out more than 40 raids in the northern countryside of Homs city on Thursday, local activists said. The regime troops backed by fighters from Iran and Lebanon's Hezbollah have launched a series of ground offensives western and northwestern...

Two Syrian refugees killed and three wounded near the Lebanese border town of Arsal when a Lebanese helicopter attacked their shelter, medical source told Zaman al Wasl on Wednesday. Activists have slammed the complicity of Red Cross with Lebanese Army, saying the international organization has...