(Agencies)- The Syrian Kurdish PYD party on Sunday rejected Turkish demands that allied militia withdraw from positions near the border that are being shelled by Turkish army, and warned that Syrians would resist any Turkish intervention in the country. The news comes after close sources to...

Israel voiced doubt on Sunday that an international ceasefire plan for Syria would work, with one senior official suggesting a sectarian partition of the country might be preferable. While formally neutral on the five-year civil war wracking its neighbor, Israel has some sway among the world...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Russia's warplanes have carried out at least 600 air strikes on Turkmen-dominated villages in the southern countryside of central Hama province in one month that have displaced 10,000 people, rebel commander told Zaman al-Wasl on Sunday.  The villages of Harbanfaseh,...

Police are investigating a killing at an asylum center in Sweden after a fight broke out among residents. It is the second such incident in a month after a 22-year- old employee at a refugee center for unaccompanied minors was stabbed to death, prompting concerns that authorities...