(Zaman Al Wasl)- Powerful Kurdish PYD militia arrested around 30 civilians in major conscription campaign in Hasaka province after they objected to their children being conscripted by force into the militias subordinate to the Democratic Union Party. According to local sources, the Democratic...

By Jesse Rosenfeld (The Nation)-  The rattle of tracer fire jolts a cellphone camera resting in the gun hole of an upper-level apartment on a shelled-out east Aleppo street. Moments after the Hezbollah fighter has fired incendiary ammunition into the neighborhood below, it’s enveloped...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The third batch of al-Waer neighborhood's evacuees have arrived to the northern province of Idlib early Sunday in almost one-day road trip, local reporter said. About 1600 people, including 358 women and 443 children, deported on Saturday from Wear neighborhood due to an...

The Iraqi policemen went house to house, kicking in doors, searching through piles of belongings left behind. ISIS had been driven out of this neighborhood of western Mosul, and now they were going through the slow, tedious work of search for explosives or hidden fighters. The houses were...