Five people have been killed and 15 others have been injured in a barrel bomb attack allegedly carried out by Bashar al-Assad regime forces in Aleppo’s Maadi district, a civil defense official said Friday. "The civil defense squad also pulled out a number of injured people from several...

 WikiLeaks is in the process of publishing more than 500,000 Saudi diplomatic documents to the Internet, the transparency website said Friday, a move that echoes its famous release of US State Department cables in 2010, AP reported.  WikiLeaks said in a statement that it has already...

The U.S. effort to build a moderate Syrian opposition force that can stand up to Islamic State rebels is moving more slowly than expected due to complications vetting volunteers and bringing them out of Syria for training, the Pentagon said on Thursday. Army Colonel Steve Warren, a Defense...

(Reporting by Ahmad Primo; translation by Yusra Ahmed) Zaman al-Wasl has met with Saqer Abo Kotaiba, the commander of 'Fastakem Kama Omert', one of the key rebel formations in Aleppo, said rebels were able to regain many posts from the Islamic State, but ISIS got closer to the Infantry School...