Turkish warplanes carried out air strikes on the Syrian city of al-Bab held by Islamic State on Friday, the military said in a statement, after four Turkish soldiers were killed in the area over the past two days. The air strikes shortly before 8 a.m. (0500 GMT) destroyed buildings believed...

At least 74 people were confirmed dead Friday after a platform at a power plant's cooling tower collapsed during construction in eastern China. State news agency Xinhua reported that the victims of Thursday's incident at the Fengcheng Power Plant in the city of Yichun in Jiangxi Province...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- A leaked recording of the Sheikh of the al-Baggara tribe, Nawaf al-Bashir, revealed statements he made supporting the regime and complimenting it, and others attacking the opposition and cursing it.  In the recording al-Bashir said, “From 2012 I have no relationship...

(The Guardian)- A group of unaccompanied Syrian teenagers who have sought safety in the UK have made an impassioned plea for Britons to accept them “with open arms, not with racism and hate” and help hundreds of other minors who are stuck in France. Omar, a 16-year-old Syrian who arrived...