(Zaman al-Wasl)- Syrian resistance factions thwarted new regime attacks backed up by Lebanese Hezbollah militia Monday on Salah al-Din neighborhood in Aleppo city. The factions killed scores from the attacking forces and took 2 as captives according to Nur al-Din al-Zanki Movement whereas...

A maintenance crew had slowed down traffic on a California highway through the night, and the work had gone on for hours without problems. Then a tour bus returning to Los Angeles from a casino trip slammed into the back of a semi-truck. Passengers who were asleep on the bus woke up to loud...

Kurdish fighters said they had taken the town of Bashiqa near Mosul from Islamic State on Sunday as coalition forces pressed their offensive against the jihadists' last stronghold in Iraq. An American official said Masoud Barzani, President of the Iraqi Kurdish region, had told U.S. Defense...

Iraqi army troops on Saturday stormed into a Christian region that has been under Islamic State control since 2014 as part of U.S.-backed operations to clear the entrances to Mosul, the militants' last major city stronghold in Iraq. The advance took place as U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter...