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...

Rebel fighters captured a major base from the Syrian army in the south of the country on Tuesday, rebels and a monitoring group said, a setback for President Bashar al-Assad reflecting the mounting pressure on him after recent losses elsewhere. Syrian officials could not immediately be reached...