After months of promises and weeks of preparation, the first Canadian government planeload of Syrian refugees landed in Toronto on Thursday, aboard a military aircraft met by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Trudeau was elected to a surprise majority in October promising to accept more...

By now, the news alerts are all too familiar: "Stabbing near Old City: Israeli wounded, attacker shot dead", read a recent bulletin. Another came by text message on Wednesday: "Stabbing attack: 2 wounded, one light, terrorist shot dead." Over the past 2-1/2 months, since a wave of violence by...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 22 people killed and 100 wounded Thursday in three truck bombs carried out by ISIS in a Kurdish-controlled town in northern province of Hasaka, activists and monitoring group said. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said 22 people have been killed in Tal Tamer...

A joint team of Syria's political and armed opposition will meet the government next month for talks seeking a political solution to nearly five years of conflict, the chairman of a Saudi-hosted opposition conference said on Friday. More than 100 members of Syria's opposition...