Four months of Russian air strikes in Syria are taking their toll on rebel forces, strengthening the hand of a defiant President Bashar al-Assad as the United Nations struggles to get peace talks off the ground. Insurgents in the west are being hit harder, while in eastern and...

(The Telegraph)- The United Nations has given approval to Western countries including Britain to carry out air drops over besieged Syrian towns without regime permission, The Telegraph can disclose. In a key admission of the UN’s failure to ensure basic supplies despite a security...

A group of militants stormed a university in volatile northwestern Pakistan on Wednesday, killing at least 19 people and wounding dozens as the army hunted for any gunmen still holed up on the campus, officials said. A security official said the death toll could rise to as high...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- ISIS has executed a Free Syrian Army fighter on Tuesday in territory it controls in the northern Aleppo province, media activists told Zaman al-Wasl. ISIS have killed FSA fighter in Qabraimou village near Manbij town 20 miles (30 km) west of the Euphrates river. Local...