More than 73,000 people were killed in Syria in 2013, the bloodiest year yet in the brutal civil war that began in March 2011, an NGO said on Wednesday. The tally from the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights came as renewed regime air strikes in the northern city of Aleppo killed at...
Violence in Iraq surged in 2013 to its worst level in five years, fuelled by widespread discontent among the Sunni Arab minority and Syria's civil war, figures released Wednesday showed. Bombs tore through markets, cafes, football fields and mosques, militants assaulted prisons, police...
Turkish gendarmes reportedly discovered weapons and ammunition after pursuing a truck bound for Syria in the southern province of Hatay on Wednesday. Acting on a tip, gendarmes stopped a truck that allegedly belongs to the Humanitarian Aid Foundation (İHH) on a road...
The Islamic Front declares that it is launching “Revenge Foray”, against Bashar al-Assad's army positions in Latakia Province in western Syria, in response to last month’s mass killing of civilians by the Syrian military’s airstrikes in and near Aleppo.
