Turkish police have detained at least 24 people working for a pro-Kurdish newspaper since it was banned this week on suspicion of supporting Kurdish militants, the newspaper said. The detentions bring the number of imprisoned Turkish media workers to 99, based on figures from the European...

Reporting by Abdul Hafiz al-Holani (Zaman al-Wasl) “The evil of a country where one has no friend, and evil is a human gaining what deafens” with this famous line of poetry for his beloved al-Mutanabbi, the refugee Mohammad Ismail Rahma begins explaining how he feels now as he prepares his...

Russia used an Iranian air base to launch airstrikes in Syria for a second day running Wednesday, rejecting U.S. suggestions its co-operation with Tehran might violate a U.N. resolution. Russia's Defense Ministry said that SU-34 fighter bombers flying from Iran's Hamadan air base had struck...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime warplanes have destroyed two hospitals in the town of Daret Azza in northern Aleppo province late on Tuesday, waging more than 30 air strikes, the town's media center said.  Most medical facilities in the the town were rocked by Regime and Russia...