Satellite photos have confirmed that a target attacked two weeks ago near the Syrian port of Latakia was a battery of advanced anti-aircraft missiles, according to the Israeli magazine, Israel Defense. The battery was in the process of upgrading that would have made...

   The Shiite Turn in Syria is in-depth study by the researcher Khalid Sindawi, Zaman Alwasl republishes this important paper which appeared   before in Volume 8 of   Current Trends in Islamist Ideology ,   published by Hudson Institute,  ...

Philippine President Benigno Aquino was under growing pressure on Thursday to speed up the distribution of food, water and medicine to desperate survivors of a super typhoon as a U.S. aircraft carrier "strike group" arrived to get supplies moving. While international relief efforts...

  Islamist groups in northern Syria are weakening after months of fighting and Kurdish militias are gaining ground, a top Kurdish leader said on Wednesday, vowing to continue their advances. Saleh Muslim, head of the Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD), told Reuters...