Islamic State militants on Saturday captured most of Palmyra after breaking through regime army defenses and securing the heights around the ancient city in eastern Syria following a surprise assault, a monitoring group and rebels said. The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights...

(The Daily Star)- A suspected car bomb outside a soccer stadium in central Istanbul wounded around 20 people on Saturday hours after the end of a match between two of Turkey's top teams, Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu said. Soylu, speaking in parliament during a budget hearing, said around...

Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos said an accord to end a 52-year civil war with Marxist rebels was a "ray of hope" for solving conflicts from Syria to South Sudan as he collected the Nobel Peace Prize on Saturday. In an acceptance speech that quoted an anti-war song by Bob Dylan, the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime’s negotiation representative offers rebel factions in in the southern Damascus suburbs to stay on condition of joining the National Defense Forces, or they must leave the area by 20th of December. A well-informed source reported to Zaman al-Wasl that a meeting...