Four miners trapped underground for 36 days in a collapsed Chinese gypsum mine were pulled out late Friday, a rescue hailed as a "miracle" in a country with a poor track record on industrial accidents. The final operation to save the men trapped more than 200 meters (660 feet) underground took...

A Syrian insurgent group said on Friday it had merged with a number of other rebel groups around Aleppo province to become a stronger fighting force in the country's five-year-old civil war. The group Failaq al-Sham, or Sham Legion, said on its Twitter feed it had merged with eight other...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- About 100 families fled southern neighborhoods of Moadamiyet al-Sham to the northern district, local activists said as Syrian regime forces stepped up attacks to capture the western suburb of Damascus. The town's media center said regime helicopters had dropped at least 36...

(Hurriyet Daily)-  A Turkish man wanted by Russia for allegedly killing one of the two pilots of the Russian jet downed by Turkey near the Turkish-Syrian border in late 2015 has appeared at a funeral ceremony in Istanbul, saying he would go back to Syria. “I am here and there. I am...