Two soldiers and 15 Boko Haram fighters were killed Thursday as the Nigeria-led multinational troops repelled an attack by militants in Abadam town of the country's northeastern Borno state, an army spokesman said Friday. "During the fierce battle, the troops killed 15 of the insurgents,...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The Crossing point of Si-Malka between Syria and Iraq has prevented almost 1500 Iraqi refugees in Syria from passing back to Iraq under orders of the Iraqi government.  Manager of the International human Rights Organization office in Syria, Farhan Saleh Turkey mentioned...

 Warplanes launched some of the heaviest air strikes yet on rebel-held areas of Aleppo on Friday after the Russian-backed Syrian army declared an offensive to fully capture Syria's biggest city, killing off any hope of reviving a ceasefire. Residents said the streets were deserted as the...

The U.S. and Russia on Thursday failed to revive a recently ended truce in Syria, according to the UN envoy to Syria. Staffan de Mistura told reporters that a meeting of the International Syria Support Group in New York on the margins of the UN General Assembly was "long, painful and...