Iran's former President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani died Sunday after a decades-long career in the ruling elite, where his moderate views were not always welcome but his cunning guided him through revolution, war and the country's turbulent politics. The political survivor's life spanned the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian rebel factions, in statement posted online, said the nationwide ceasefire is 'void and null' as regime forces and allied Hezbollah militia extended their ground and aerial campaign on Wadi Barada valley, northwest the capital. The 9-day-old ceasefire agreement that...

A truck driven by a Palestinian rammed into pedestrians on a popular promenade in occupied Jerusalem Sunday killing four people, according to Israeli police who called it a deliberate attack. "It is a terrorist attack, a ramming attack," a police spokeswoman said on Israel Radio. Police...

Airstrikes resumed Sunday in a rebel-held valley near Damascus containing the Syrian capital's main water supply, a day after insurgents and the government failed to agree a plan to repair the springs knocked out of service two weeks ago. The government and allied fighters from the...