Warplanes bombed a strategic camp on the northern edge of Aleppo on Sunday as Syrian government and rebel forces battled for control of the city in a Russian-backed offensive that appears to have buried any hope for diplomacy. The United Nations Security Council will meet at 11 a.m. (1500...

Iraq's military backed by air strikes from a U.S.-led coalition on Thursday seized the center of Shirqat, a northern town seen as a stepping stone in the campaign to recapture Mosul from Islamic State. The army, backed by local police and Sunni Muslim tribal fighters, were still clashing...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian writers, artists, and journalists condemned the American-Russian intervention in their country in tandem with the ceasefire agreed on by both sides on Syrian territory which began on the eve of the first day of Eid al-Adha.  They introduced themselves as...

Gary Johnson, the U.S. presidential nominee of the Libertarian Party and former governor of New Mexico, joined news channel MSNBC's live "Morning Joe" show to answer journalists’ questions. One of the panel’s questions, Mike Barnicle's, "What would you do, if you were elected, about Aleppo?"...