The veteran opposition figure, Haitham al-Maleh, to be the acting head of the Syrian National Coalition as former head Khaled Khoja finished his two mandates, sources said on Sunday. Al-Maleh is a Syrian Islamist activist and former judge who joined human rights field since the 1960s.

Pope Francis called on Sunday for a united response to help flows of people into Europe fleeing war and suffering, as the region argues over sharing the burden of looking after them. Addressing crowds in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, Francis, who decried the suffering of...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- A spokesman for the YPG-led Syrian Democratic Forces said on Sunday that his U.S.-backed alliance of Kurds and Arabs fighters had driven ISIS from Tel Abyad town on the Turkish border, Killing 70 militants. Colonel Tala Cilo, SDf 's spokesman told RIA Novosti that "All...

Turkish security forces have foiled 18 suicide attacks since the start of the year, three of them by intercepting vehicles laden with explosives, Interior Minister Efkan Ala said in an interview with the Kanal 7 television station on Sunday. Ala said that one of the three...