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...

By Ethar Abdulhaq (Zaman Al Wasl)- In a fancy apartment in the Adawi district of Damascus lives Abu Muhammad, one of the most vicious criminals of Bashar al-Assad's regime has shed a lot Syrian blood. Yet, to much irony, he is the shadow man of the Assad regime. To the extent that obtaining...

German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble told a German newspaper the European Union should take a tough stance in negotiations with Britain over its exit from the bloc after more than 40 years of membership. British Prime Minister Theresa May Wednesday formally notified Brussels of...

On west Mosul's Baghdad street, thousands of displaced Iraqis flee the fighting with their meagre belongings but similar numbers walk in the other direction, heading straight back into the war-torn city. The street is currently the main corridor for civilians fleeing the battle between the...