RAQQA, Syria (Reuters) - Raqqa’s hospital, a big complex pocked with bullets holes, whose capture will signal the end of Islamic State’s crumbling Syrian capital, lies just 200 yards from a front-line base of the Syrian Democratic Forces. Beyond it, a roundabout where the jihadists...

Reuters) - Spanish riot police burst into polling stations across Catalonia on Sunday, seizing ballot boxes and voting papers to prevent a banned referendum on a split from Spain in a show of force aimed at asserting Madrid’s authority over the rebel region. Police hit people with...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 12 civilians, including 4 children, have been killed in  Eastern Ghouta as Syrian regime forces step up its heavy bombing on the embattled suburbs of Damascus, activists said on Friday. Local reporter said the airstrikes have targeted...

Thousands of people took to the streets of Tehran on Wednesday to bury a soldier whose beheading by Islamic State has come to symbolize the righteousness of Iran’s military involvement in Syria. In what has become an iconic image on Iranian media, 25-year-old Revolutionary Guard...