Houthi forces fired mortar rounds at an oil refinery in the southern Yemeni city of Aden on Monday, starting a huge fire, witnesses and local officials said. The mortar barrage hit three full storage tanks, in an incident sure to add to the fuel crisis in the southern port....

 At least 40 people have been killed and dozens wounded in Syrian regime airstrikes on the northern town of al-Bab near Aleppo, activists said on Monday. The death toll of three-day bombing on al-Bab has reached 75 civilians, according to monitoring groups and activists. In the last few...

(By Ethar Abdulhaq; Translation by Yusra Ahmed) A leaked document from the archive of the Syrian regime showed that in 2015, the Syrian regime reported 686 defected soldiers and officers, most of them were of relatively high ranks, as almost 53% of them were sergeant and first sergeants, and...

A Canadian-Israeli who was the first foreign woman to help Syria's Kurds fight Islamic State has left the front lines and returned to Israel, citing the spread of Iranian influence in the war zones among her reasons. After eight months in which she was often incommunicado,...