At least seven Sunni mosques and dozens of shops in eastern Iraq were firebombed Tuesday, security sources and local officials said, a day after 23 people were killed there in two blasts claimed by ISIS. Ten people were also shot and killed in Muqdadiya, 80 km (50 miles) northeast of...

 ( Zaman Al Wasl)- Russia has staged more deadly strikes on the northern countryside of Aleppo on Tuesday, killing at least 35 people, activists said. The devastating strikes on the ISIS-held town of Manbej have killed 25 civilians and wounded 40 more people. In...

 Russian President Vladimir Putin said Tuesday it was premature to say whether Moscow would grant asylum to embattled Syrian leader Bashar Assad, who had made "many mistakes." "You know I believe that it is premature to discuss this," Putin said in the second half of a two-part interview...

 The U.N. Security Council discussed the besieged towns of Syria after reports emerged that tens of thousands of civilians have been trapped for months without supplies and are starving to death. The meeting on Monday was called by New Zealand, Spain and France in response to the reports...