Syria’s air defences engaged “hostile targets” over the capital of Damascus, state-run media said late Thursday. Residents reported loud explosions that rocked the city shortly before midnight. State news agency SANA quoted reports saying Syrian air defences intercepted a...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Pro-Iran Fatemiyoun militia has sent 200 militants to northern Syrian to fight along with Bashar al-Assad's forces in the last major rebel bastion, Badiya 24 news site said Thursday. Liwa Fatemiyoun operates in the Syrian Desert east of Homs city and near oil-rich areas...

Rival forces clashed in the Libyan capital Thursday, causing new civilian casualties in the grinding conflict a day after a UN Security Council resolution called for a "lasting ceasefire". The resolution was the council's first since eastern Libya strongman Khalifa Haftar launched an...

The Saudi-led coalition fighting Huthi rebels will put on trial military personnel suspected of being behind deadly air strikes on civilians in Yemen, where the UN has deplored horrific rights violations. Wednesday's announcement by coalition spokesman Turki al-Maliki is the first of its...