(Zaman Al Wasl)- Around 75 displaced families, mostly women and children, have been freed from the deserted Kurdish-held Al-Hol camp in northeastern Hasaka province over a tribal mediation, local council said Friday. Deir Ezzor's Civil Council said the freed families have headed their...

Syria's Kurds Thursday handed over 35 Russian orphans linked to the Islamic State group to their home country in the latest such repatriation of parentless children, an AFP correspondent said. The boys and girls were handed over to a Russian delegation in the town of Qamishli, he said....

Young Iraqi protesters pushed on with anti-government rallies across the country on Thursday as they buried seven fellow activists killed overnight in violence blamed on supporters of powerful cleric Moqtada Sadr. Sadr -- a militiaman-turned-politician with a cult-like following -- had...

Eight humanitarian aid organisations on Wednesday called for an immediate ceasefire in northwestern Syria, where hostilities have displaced half a million people in the past two months. Russia-backed forces of the Syrian regime have upped their deadly bombardment of the last major rebel...