(Zaman Al Wasl)- Kurdish-led Syria Democratic Forces took new ground from the Islamic State in the western countryside of Raqqa city, the U.S.-backed militia said in statement Wednesday. The SDF fighters captured Haddaj village after two days of clashes with ISIS. The ongoing advance...

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe made a symbolic visit to Pearl Harbor with President Barack Obama on Tuesday, commemorating the victims of Japan's World War Two attack and promising that his country would never wage war again. The visit, just weeks before Republican President-elect Donald...

Airstrikes carried out by unidentified aircraft killed at least 22 civilians, including 10 children, in a village held by ISIS in eastern Syria, activists said Wednesday. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the civilians were from two families at Hojna in Deir Ezzor, which borders...

Russia said on Tuesday that a U.S. decision to ease restrictions on arming Syrian rebels had opened the way for deliveries of shoulder-fired anti-aircraft missiles, a move it said would directly threaten Russian forces in Syria. Moscow last year launched a campaign of air strikes in Syria to...