Nearly 120 people were killed and 200 wounded in two bombings overnight in Baghdad, most of them in a busy shopping area as residents celebrated Ramadan, police and medical sources said on Sunday. The attack on the shopping area of Karrada is the deadliest since U.S.-backed Iraqi...

 Syria's al Qaeda-linked Nusra Front has abducted the commander of the Western-backed Jaish al-Tahrir brigade, along with several of his aides and scores of fighters in coordinated raids in northern Syria, Jaish al Tahrir said on Sunday. Jaish al Tahrir was set up in February as part of an...

 (Zaman al-Wasl)- Syrian rebels captured new ground from regime forces and allied militias in Jabal al-Turkman area in Latakia province as they launched the third phase of Yarmouk Battle, killing and injuring dozens, activists said Sunday. Activist Majd al-Naji reported that 17 regime...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 6 Palestinians killed in regime air strikes on the besieged refugee camp of Khan al-Shih south of Damascus, local council said Wednesday. Regime warplanes have carried out more than 50 raids on Khan al-Shih town and the Palestinian camp since Sunday, the town's local...