U.S. investigators sought clues on Tuesday to why an Afghan-born naturalized American citizen might have planted bombs in New York City and New Jersey over the weekend, including whether he had accomplices or was radicalized overseas. "The investigation is active and ongoing, and it is being...

A new ceasefire in Syria brought a full day with no combat deaths in the war between President Bashar al-Assad and his opponents, a monitoring body said on Tuesday, and efforts to deliver aid to besieged areas got cautiously underway. Twenty-four hours after the truce took effect, the United...

 The United Nations Special Envoy for Syria called for all warring sides to agree by Sunday to allow the first safe delivery of relief supplies to the divided city of Aleppo. The U.N. is seeking a weekly 48-hour humanitarian pause to deliver food, medicines and other aid to people in...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- A Syrian baby was born this week in a rare condition known as Mermaid syndrome in al-Zafaraneh village in central Homs province . The doctors at first could not identify the sex of the baby, who passed away 10 hours later, a male, due to tragic fuse of the legs. A medical...