(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian rebel factions on Wednesday have taken control of a town and its strategic hilltop in the northwestern Hama province, inflicting humiliating defeat on regime forces and allied militias, local activists said. Seizing the town of al-Hamameyat in the northern...

President Bashar al-Assad’s assault in the northwest has been met with a painful rebel counterpunch that underlines Turkish resolve to keep the area out of his hands and shows why he will struggle to take back more of Syria by force. More than two months of Russian-backed operations in...

The U.N. refugee agency says around 260 African migrants have been relocated to another detention center in the Libyan capital after the facility where they were being held was hit by a deadly airstrike. UNHCR says they were moved Tuesday, nearly a week after the airstrike that killed more...

The US Treasury placed two Hezbollah members of Lebanon's parliament on its sanctions blacklist on Tuesday -- the first time Washington has taken aim at the Iran-allied group's elected politicians. Stepping up its effort to build global pressure on the powerful Lebanese Shiite movement, the...