A recent spike in civilian casualties in Mosul suggests the U.S.-led coalition is not taking adequate precautions to prevent civilian deaths as it battles ISIS alongside Iraqi ground forces, Amnesty International said Tuesday. The human rights group's report follows acknowledgement from the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- About 20,000 fighters loyal to Bashar al-Assad have been mobilized in government-held area in al-Ghab Plain and Latakia province to launch major offensive on the northern city of Jisr al-Shughour, well-informed source told Zaman al-Wasl. The ongoing battles northeast Hama have...

 When Syria's war came to 73-year-old Joseph Mghazi's street in the Abbasiyeen neighborhood of Damascus, he ignored his neighbor's entreaties to halt his habitual streetside backgammon games. "We would sit and play backgammon as the shells were falling around us," he told AFP in the...

The White House is calling on Russia to immediately release all peaceful protesters arrested over the weekend during a large anti-government demonstration. White House press secretary Sean Spicer said the U.S. "strongly condemns the detention of hundreds of peaceful protesters throughout...