(Zaman Al Wasl)- The Syrian resistance factions on Saturday took new ground from regime army west of the battleground city of Aleppo, marking the second day of a large-scale attack to break siege on opposition-held neighborhoods, commander said. Abu Yousef al-Muhajer, the military spokesman of...

Syrian opposition activists are reporting airstrikes and fighting on the edge of the contested northern city of Aleppo. Saturday's fighting comes a day after Syrian rebels launched a broad offensive aiming to break a weeks-long government siege on the eastern rebel-held neighborhoods of...

(The Daily Star)- Iraqi paramilitaries launched an operation Saturday to retake the town of Tal Afar from ISIS and cut extremist supply lines from Mosul to Syria, a spokesman said. Forces from the Hashed al-Shaabi, a paramilitary umbrella organisation dominated by Iran-backed Shiite...

(The Daily Star)-  A Palestinian attacked Israeli troops with his car and then with a knife in the occupied West Bank before being shot and seriously wounded, the army said Saturday. The attack happened late Friday near the Jewish settlement of Ofra, northeast of the city of Ramallah,...