A leading Kurdish lawyer was shot dead Saturday in southeast Turkey after unknown attackers opened fire on a gathering in the mainly Kurdish province of Diyarbakir, triggering a shootout with police, hospital sources and witnesses said. According to witnesses, unknown assailants...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Russian air strikes on eastern suburbs of Damascus have killed 4 people on Saturday amid reports rebels have recaptured ground in the area. Regime's key-ally Russia has made a turning point by hitting rural Damascus after almost two months of aerial bombing on north and east...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- A Syrian newborn has been taken hostage by a Lebanese hospital as his displaced family can not pay the last $1200 of treatment expenses, activists said Saturday. Family of Mohamed Issa al Kholi, who fled the central Syrian town of Krak des Chevaliers to Lebanese city...

The aunt of a Syrian boy whose lifeless body was photographed on a Turkish beach, sparking worldwide outrage at the refugee crisis, said she hopes her family members will be in Canada by Christmas. Tima Kurdi said Friday that Canada has approved her application to bring her brother Mohammed...