Aid workers who reached a besieged Syrian town spoke of "heartbreaking" conditions being endured by emaciated and starving residents, with hundreds in need of specialized medical help. An aid convoy on Monday brought the first food and medical relief for months to the western town of Madaya,...

At least seven Sunni mosques and dozens of shops in eastern Iraq were firebombed Tuesday, security sources and local officials said, a day after 23 people were killed there in two blasts claimed by ISIS. Ten people were also shot and killed in Muqdadiya, 80 km (50 miles) northeast of...

Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- The exclusive archive of the Syrian intelligence and criminal records, obtained by Zaman Al Wasl has 28 notices against members of al-Assad family out of 2.5 million criminal notices and 1.7 million intelligence notices and arrest...

 Russian President Vladimir Putin said Tuesday it was premature to say whether Moscow would grant asylum to embattled Syrian leader Bashar Assad, who had made "many mistakes." "You know I believe that it is premature to discuss this," Putin said in the second half of a two-part interview...