The Syria war is escalating in tandem with intensified diplomacy, but neither growing foreign military intervention nor a revived political track look capable of bringing an end to the 4-1/2-year-old conflict. The risk is a more ferocious proxy war between President Bashar...

Bondoufle (France) (AFP) - It was the day after the Paris attacks and the brother of one of the suicide bombers had been glued to his TV for close to 24 hours. He'd sat there, in shock, at his home in the southern Paris suburb of Bondoufle, watching as news outlets played and...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 12 Tunisian presidential guards have been killed and 16 more wounded in an explosion hit their mini-bus in Tunisia's capital, Tunis, state TV reports. The explosion happened at a bus stop where the presidential guard picks up and drops off its staff, near the former...

(Translation by Yusra Ahmed) (Zaman Al Wasl)- Statistics showed that Bashar al-Assad's war on Syrian people has caused permanent disability for about 300 thousand Syrians, half of them children under 16 years old. Samira Yousuf, 4-year-old girl from Taldo, the biggest town in al Hola city...