Hundreds of Iranian troops have arrived in Syria to join a major ground offensive in support of  Bashar al-Assad's government, Lebanese sources said on Thursday, a further sign of the rapid internationalization of a civil war in which every major country in the region has a...

Israel says it has indicted seven Arab citizens on suspicion of setting up an ISIS cell in the country and planning to attack police and army bases. Spokeswoman Luba Samri said on Thursday that the seven - all men in their 20s and 30s - are affiliated with ISIS group's ideology. She said they...

(Translation by Yusra Ahmed) Zaman Al Wasl (ALEPPO)- The Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) on Wednesday morning has breached the truce held with rebels  in Sheikh Maqsoud neighborhood of Aleppo city, targeting the bystanders on the Castello road by sniper shots that left two...

 A migrant woman and a child drowned off the Greek island of Lesbos after their boat sank, police said Wednesday, adding 45 other passengers had been rescued. The Greek harbor police did not give the victims’ ages or nationalities and it was not clear if the two were related. According...