Heavy airstrikes targeted a rebel-held area of Eastern Ghouta on Friday, killing 10 people in the town of Saqba, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. The Observatory said Russian jets carried out the strikes, citing its activist network on the ground. Advancing Syrian...

  With less than two weeks before elections, Egypt's president says he's prepared to personally join security forces battling Islamist militants in the Sinai Peninsula. The outcome of the March 26-28 election is a foregone conclusion, with general-turned-president Abdel-Fattah...

Turkish forces shelled the Kurdish-held northern Syrian town of Afrin on Wednesday killing at least seven people, Kurdish forces reported, as government shelling and airstrikes killed at least 20 civilians in the besieged eastern Ghouta enclave near the capital Damascus, activists said....

BEIRUT: Water to Syria's Afrin town has been cut for a week, the United Nations said Wednesday, after Turkish troops seized the main dam and water plant in the region. Ankara launched an offensive nearly two months ago against the town, to drive out Syrian Kurdish forces that control...