( The Guardian )- Abdulmonem Kitouh was on top of the world. It was December 2015 and he had just married the love of his life. He and Rana Damien had met in Aleppo, often in secret, because he was a Muslim and she a Christian. When the war in Syria upended their lives, he moved to Istanbul...

By Ethar Abdulhaq (Zaman Al  Wasl)- When Wael Jakesh, one of the most dangerous commanders of the National Defense militia in al-Salamiyah city east of Hama province or perhaps even all Syria, was killed on June 5, 2017, he was celebrated as “a martyr of the homeland who died fighting...

A drone strike likely to have been carried out by the United States killed two suspected Al-Qaeda members in southern Yemen, a security official said on Sunday. The attack took place on Saturday night in Wadhie, a region in the southern province of Abyan, the official said. One of the...

Taliban militants ambushed and killed 13 members of an anti-militant militia in a mosque in northern Afghanistan, officials confirmed on Sunday. The incident took place a day earlier in the remote village of Haji Nadir in the restive Chamtal district, in the Balkh province bordering...