(Eqtsad)- All the medical and health facilities in the ISIS-held town of al-Shajara in the southern Daraa province have been closed, including the woman and delivery hospital, besides the field hospitals as well as many medical centers, due to fund shortage and the rebel-imposed siege on drugs...

(Al- Monitor)- Lebanon is a country of unsettled scores. Each time I visit the country, I keep seeing and feeling the burdensome legacy of its 15-year civil war, no matter how many years had gone by since it ended in 1990. What would I find in neighboring Syria, as its nearly 6-year-old civil...

Turkey has arrested five soldiers in connection with a deadly suicide attack on the military claimed by a Kurdish radical group in the central city of Kayseri, state media said Friday. A bus -- carrying low-ranking privates and non-commissioned officers -- was attacked after leaving the...

A powerful blast caused by a suicide bomber hit a heavily policed district of the capital on Thursday with at least seven killed, a police source told state television. The source was quoted by state television as saying a suicide bomber blew himself in the Kafr Sousa neighbourhood...