Mohammad Zarqawi ambled around his narrow shop in central Damascus, filling plastic bags with colourful spices and herbs, their aroma spilling out into a dim market once bustling with customers. The middle-aged shop owner said business has slowed since the value of the Syrian pound...

 Overnight air strikes killed 10 pro-Iranian Iraqi militiamen in eastern Syria, a war monitor said Tuesday, without specifying who carried them out. The strikes targeted "three positions of the (Iranian) Revolutionary Guards and allied (Iraqi) militias" in Albu Kamal, in the...

An explosion near an election rally attended by Afghan President Ashraf Ghani killed 24 people and injured 31 others, a health official said, but Ghani was unhurt according to an aide. Ghani had been due to address the rally in Charikar, capital of Parwan province, north of Kabul, when the...

 A Syrian child was killed, and two more children wounded in a landmine explosion in the rebel-held city of Afrin city near the Turkish border, rescuing White Helmets agency said Tuesday.  Local activists said the childern were the victimed of lansdmines planted by Kurdish...