(ICIJ)- One morning in mid-2014, before the summer sun had reached its peak, two elderly men in Aleppo, Syria, sat on plastic chairs, chatting quietly and drinking black coffee. From his perch outside his food stall, Sabri Wahid Asfur and his friend Abu Yassin watched their neighbors go...

The death toll from air strikes in the Deir al-Asafir district southeast of Damascus has risen to 33, mostly women and children, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group said. The strikes on Thursday, which the Observatory said were carried out by Syrian...

(Zaman Al Wasl)-  Four Mi-28NE “Night Hunter” helicopters left Hmeymim airbase in Latakia city for T-4 and al-Shuairat airbases eastern Homs province to back regime in its major military campaign against Islamic State near the ancient city of Palmyra, source told Zaman al-Wasl. The...

An EgyptAir plane flying from Alexandria to Cairo was hijacked and forced to land in Cyprus on Tuesday by a man with what authorities said was a fake suicide belt, who was arrested after giving himself up. The passengers and crew were unharmed. Eighty-one people, including 21...