Syria’s air defences engaged “hostile targets” over the capital of Damascus, state-run media said late Thursday. Residents reported loud explosions that rocked the city shortly before midnight. State news agency SANA quoted reports saying Syrian air defences intercepted a...

Rival forces clashed in the Libyan capital Thursday, causing new civilian casualties in the grinding conflict a day after a UN Security Council resolution called for a "lasting ceasefire". The resolution was the council's first since eastern Libya strongman Khalifa Haftar launched an...

A suicide attack rocked the Afghan capital Kabul early Tuesday, the interior ministry said, with civilian casualties feared in what appeared to be the first major assault in the city in months. No group immediately claimed responsibility for the attack, which comes after nearly three months...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- On September 7, 2011, Syria lost one of its revolution’s icons, Bilal Al-Kin, who was the thorn in the regime's side, both dead and alive, mourning his loss but following in his footsteps.  Activist Yaman Al-Homsi said that Al-Kin was a strong-willed young man...