Syria's U.N. Ambassador Bashar Ja'afari said on Sunday deadly air strikes by a U.S.-led coalition were aimed at sinking a fragile U.S.-Russia ceasefire plan, escalating tensions over a Syria deal between Moscow and Washington. "The aim of the aggression is to make the ceasefire between...

Israeli police have detained 20 Arab Israelis belonging to the Balad political party after an investigation into their finances. A police statement said they detained officials, activists, lawyers and accountants during Sunday morning raids. It said the party was suspected of hiding the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 8 civilians have been killed in regime's barrel bombs attacks on southern Daraa province, The Syrian Network for Human Rights said Sunday. The four barrels hit the town of Dael in the northern countryside that left dozens wounded. The nearly six-year war that started...

A Somali general and at least seven of his bodyguards were killed on Sunday when their vehicle was rammed by a car bomb driven by an al Shabaab suicide attacker in the capital, police and the Islamist group said. Al Shabaab, which frequently launches attacks on officials in Mogadishu, staged...