Kurdish fighters said they had taken the town of Bashiqa near Mosul from Islamic State on Sunday as coalition forces pressed their offensive against the jihadists' last stronghold in Iraq. An American official said Masoud Barzani, President of the Iraqi Kurdish region, had told U.S. Defense...

(Zaman al-Wasl)- Well-informed sources in al-Waer neighborhood Homs city reported that regime partially closed al-Muhandeseen and al-Shoun al-Faniya cross points on Sunday. The sources told Zaman al-Wasl that regime banned entrance of food items to the neighborhood starting from 18 October...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Residents of al-Bunyan al-Marsos refugee camp in Idlib province have been suffering absence of water since a week as a charity who pays for water pumping has cut funding. The 450 displaced who mostly fled from al-Akrad and al-Turkman mountains due to Russia's aerial bombing...

ON BOARD THE SIEM PILOT: Horrific scenes unfolded in the Mediterranean off Libya Saturday as a full-to-capacity rescue ship was forced to sail away from desperate migrants trying to swim towards the rescuers. During a dramatic 24 hours, the crew of the Norwegian Siem Pilot and another aid...