India has extended the detention of four political leaders in Kashmir and a prominent lawyer who have been held since August to quell dissent after the federal government stripped the region of its autonomy, officials and a lawyer said Friday. The extension was issued under India's...

Turkey has sent nearly 150 vehicles with commandos and ammunition to reinforce its observation posts in Idlib, Syria's last rebel-held region, Turkish state news agency Anadolu reported Friday. A Turkish security source emphasised they were only to reinforce the 12 existing posts...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Around 75 displaced families, mostly women and children, have been freed from the deserted Kurdish-held Al-Hol camp in northeastern Hasaka province over a tribal mediation, local council said Friday. Deir Ezzor's Civil Council said the freed families have headed their...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- With the ongoing Russian-led offensive on last rebel stronghold in northwestern Syria and with the threat of violation of the Sochi ceasefire agreement, indicators of the U.S. involvement can be discerned in the nature of mobilization and bombing, targeting the Syrian regime...