A huge blaze broke out Thursday at a gas-fired power station just outside Moscow with a plume of smoke and flames surging 50 meters into the sky, Russian television showed. The fire at Power Station No. 27 broke out around 11:00 a.m. Thursday. The emergencies ministry said that at least...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian rebel factions on Wednesday have taken control of a town and its strategic hilltop in the northwestern Hama province, inflicting humiliating defeat on regime forces and allied militias, local activists said. Seizing the town of al-Hamameyat in the northern...

The United States will use an emergency meeting of the U.N. nuclear watchdog’s board on Wednesday to raise pressure on Iran over breaches of its nuclear deal, but diplomats expect no concrete action as parties to the deal consider their next move. In the past two weeks Iran has breached...

.Regime and Russian air strikes on northwestern Syria on Wednesday killed 11 civilians including four children and knocked a hospital out of service, a monitor said. The raids are the latest in an uptick in deadly government and Russian bombardment since late April on the...