(Reuters) - Militant group Islamic State killed 270 soldiers, guards and staff when they captured a Syrian gas field on Thursday in the bloodiest clash yet between the al Qaeda offshoot and President Bashar al-Assad's forces, a monitoring group said on Saturday. The anti-Assad...

  GAZA/JERUSALEM (Reuters) - More than 60 Palestinians and 13 Israeli soldiers were killed as Israel shelled a Gaza neighborhood and battled militants on Sunday in the bloodiest fighti ng in a near two-week-old offensive. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas accused Israel of...

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — A Gaza City neighborhood came under heavy tank fire Sunday as Israel widened its ground offensive against Hamas, causing hundreds of panicked residents to flee, including a woman in a wheelchair waving a white flag. At least 30 people were killed in...

Damascus, July 19 (IANS) Syrian President Bashar al-Assad Saturday appointed Najah Attar as the new vice president, media reported. Najah Attar has served as the vice president for cultural affairs since 2006 and the new presidential decree has appointed her as the sole vice...