A rocket was fired near the police headquarters in Turkey's largest city of Istanbul on Friday but missed the building, broadcaster CNN Turk said. Turkey has been hit by a series of gun and bomb attacks in recent months, some claimed by Kurdish PKK militants, others blamed on Islamic State....

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian rebels on Friday thwarted regime attack on the mountainous Jabal al-Akrad area in Latakia province, activists said. The regime forces backed by Shiite militias launched attacks on al-Tuffahiya hilltop, taking advantage of discorded between main Syria's armed...

Iraqi forces have "fully liberated" eastern Mosul from the Daesh terrorist group, Iraq’s army-affiliated counter-terrorism forces announced Wednesday. "Our forces have established total control over eastern Mosul," Lieutenant-General Talib Shaghati, a top commander of the army’s...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime air strikes killed 7 people in the besieged northern countryside of central Homs province in a new violation for the nationwide ceasefire, local reporter said Monday. The regime warplanes hit the towns of Talbiseh  and villages of Ezzieddin, Deir Foul and...