At a roundtable discussion this past weekend in the Aegean town where  Herodotus  was born, history-making events, on the scale of those he recorded, provoked sharp debate. At its annual roundtable in Bodrum, the Istanbul-based  Edam Centre for Economics and Foreign...

  While the children of Ein Tarma town in Damascus suburbs were playing and celebrating the major Muslims' holiday Eid al-Adha, Bashar al-Assad warplanes hit the pubic square of the city, killing 3 children at least . Pro-Assad's social media pages said...

 Rebels close to take over the central prison of Aleppo after two suicide bombs and ongoing clashed, activists reported. ''50 soldiers of Assad regime forces have been killed among them a high ranking officer,  with more than 500 detainees have been released  including...

Syrian army troops have recaptured a strategic town in the south of Damascus from opposition forces on Wednesday, state media and a monitoring group reported.  The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the army was backed by Iraqi and Lebanese Shiite militia in the assault on the...