BEIRUT (Reuters) - Cars carrying food and aid supplies entered a southern Damascus neighborhood on Wednesday thanks to a local ceasefire agreement between pro-government officials and insurgents, a monitoring group said on Wednesday. Such truces have been...

BEIRUT (AP) — Syrian authorities detained a prominent Damascus-based writer and dissident Wednesday as he was trying to leave the country, his political party said. Louay Hussein was taken into custody at the Syria-Lebanon border as he was heading to Spain to visit his...

  (Zaman Al Wasl)-   The decision of Syrian opposition’s government to cut salaries of its workers into half, has excluded the ministers and senior officials, source told Zaman al-Wasl. The Cut Policy adopted recently by the interim...

BAGHDAD — The vengeance that Iraq’s Shiite militias mete out as they fight the Islamic State group can be just as brutal as that of their sworn sectarian enemies. In a grisly video recently posted online, a Shiite fighter shouts the name of a revered imam in victory as he...