A ballistic missile defense shield which the United States has activated in Europe is a step to a new arms race, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Friday, vowing to adjust budget spending to neutralize "emerging threats" to Russia. The United States switched on the $800 million missile...

Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Eqtsad)- Despite the attempts of the security forces to control the Western countryside of Homs, many groups of “Shabiha” still uncontrollable, as they commit crimes of killing, abduction, looting and they become the main decision makers in the area, and members...

The United States and its allies staged 21 strikes against Islamic State in Iraq and Syria on Thursday in their latest round of daily attacks against the militant group, the coalition leading the operations said in a statement on Friday. The Combined Joint Task Force said 14 strikes in Iraq...

Amnesty International said on Friday that Syrian insurgent groups might have committed war crimes in their heavy bombardment of a Kurdish-controlled area of the northern city of Aleppo. The rights watchdog said it had collected evidence of the killing of dozens of civilians by indiscriminate...