(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime has extended its major aerial and ground offensive on the two besieged towns of Moadamiya and Daraya, south of the capital, dropping at least 30 barrel bombs, activists said Saturday. For over a weeks, Syrian Republican Guards and notorious Division 4 have...

Terrified families waved white flags as they emerged from homes reduced to rubble in the Iraqi city of Ramadi, where government troops were still battling Islamic State fighters holed up on Friday, five days after the army recaptured the city center. The provincial capital in the fertile...

Iraq's foreign minister said on Wednesday it could resort to military means if forced to defend itself from what it says is an intrusion of Turkish forces into part of its north. Turkey said it had deployed a force protection unit earlier this month to the area due to...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- A prominent journalism watchdog has called on Turkey to protect exiled Syrian journalists on its territory after an opposition journalist was fatally shot near the border with Syria, AP reported. Naji al-Jarf, 38, the editor-in-chief of pro-opposition Hentah Magazine died in...