Gunmen shot dead a senior employee of Iraq's state-run North Oil Company (NOC) Monday, the third company official to be killed in the past four months, police and sources within the company said. Deputy inspector-general Hassan Salim and three other employees were driving to their office in...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The death toll of deadly strikes on Douma and nearby suburbs east Damascus has risen to 70, activists said Sunday. Scores, including women and children, have been killed on Sunday in air and missile attacks on a school district in Douma city near Damascus, medics and...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 40 civilians, including women and children, have been killed on Sunday in air and missile attacks on a school district in Douma city near Damascus, medics and activists said. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said unidentified war planes hit the town of...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime air strikes have killed 14 civilians in the eastern and western suburbs of the Syrian capital, a monitoring group said on Saturday. The Syrian Network for Human Rights said 6 people, including mother and her newborn, have been killed in southern district of...