At least 24 people, including 19 children, were killed in the eastern countryside of Daraa province when regime fired a missile on a Quranic schoolroom, activists said Tuesday. The missile attack on the town of al-Ghara al-Sharqiya has targeted a seminar for Quran memorization, what made most...

Islam Army, key rebel group active east of Damascus, has waged a new missile attack on government-held neighborhoods of Syria's capital, activists said Tuesday. The Katyusha rockets have stormed Mezzeh 86 , a predominantly Alawite neighborhood. The shelling also reached al-Maliki district, few...

The Syrian Kurdish YPG militia said it began an advance towards an Islamic State-held town at the Turkish border on Saturday, thrusting deeper into the jihadists' stronghold of Raqqa province in a campaign backed by U.S.-led air strikes. Redur Xelil, the YPG spokesman, told...

An Egyptian court Thursday sentenced a policeman to 15 years in jail over the fatal shooting of a woman during a peaceful leftist rally, a court official said. Shaima al-Sabbagh, a 34-year-old mother of a five-year-old, was struck by birdshot in January as police dispersed a small march on the...