(AFP)- Syria's President Bashar al-Assad formed a new government on Wednesday, two months after his reelection, leaving key ministries untouched as a brutal war continues to ravage his country. The new line-up includes 11 new ministers, but leaves Prime Minister Wael al-Halaqi,...

LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Cluster bomb attacks and unexploded munitions killed or injured nearly 1,600 people in Syria in the past two years – 97 percent of them civilians – an international campaign group said on Wednesday. Both South Sudan, the world’s...

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey's ruling party convened on Wednesday to confirm Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu as its new chairman and prime minister-designate, to replace Recep Tayyip Erdogan as he becomes president — a position he has pledged to transform from a ceremonial post...

(Zaman Alwasl)- The Islamic State group, which seized Mosul in June and also controls swathes of territory in neighboring Syria, has posted online first images and footage for its last gains, al-Tabqa airbase east Syria. Dozens of slain soldiers and...