The German government has drafted a law to allow authorities to tap into the phone and computer data of asylum-seekers if there are doubts about their nationalities – an unusual move in a country where data protection is sacred. According to a draft of the bill obtained by Reuters,...

Syrian regime forces fired rockets at a rebel-held area on Damascus's outskirts on Sunday, pressing an attack that began the day before and has killed up to 16 people, a medical worker and war monitors said. The medical worker and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said it was the biggest...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least seven people, including two children and two women, have been killed in regime airstrikes on Barzeh, northeastern suburb of Damascus, local activists said Monday. The northeastern neighborhoods of Damascus have endured to heavy aerial and ground bombardment in the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- An Islamic State affiliate took three village from rebels in the southern province of Daraa on Monday, killing and wounding dozens of civilians and rebels, sources said. Jaish Khaled Ibn al-Walid, an Islamist alliance pledged allegiance to ISIS two year ago, has captured...