Syria’s army and its allies raced towards their enclave in Deir al-Zor after a rapid advance on Sunday, seeking to relieve it after years of Islamic State siege as jihadist defenses suddenly collapsed. Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has focused this year on the campaign in Syria’s...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Failaq al-Rahman on Sunday said it had ambushed army's elite forces in the Eastern Ghouta suburbs near the capital, killing at least 25 soldiers, the key rebel group said in statement.   Despite the Russian-brokered truce, fighting has renewed in Jobar neighborhood...

 North Korea conducted its sixth and most powerful nuclear test on Sunday, which it said was an advanced hydrogen bomb for a long-range missile, marking a dramatic escalation of the regime’s stand-off with the United States and its allies. The test drew swift international...

Germany’s center-left Social Democrats (SPD) slightly narrowed the gap with Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservatives in a poll published on Sunday, only hours before the center-right leader will face her challenger Martin Schulz in a television debate. Pollster Emnid said in a...