Local activists  said rebels have retaken Kafer Nabuda town on Monday noon, thwarting Pro-regime forces including the Lebanese group Hezbollah who captured earlier the southern part of town in  in Hama province in western Syria. Russian jets carried out...

Turkish warplanes struck Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militant targets in northern Iraq and southeastern Turkey Saturday and Sunday, pressing their military campaign a day after the rebel group ordered its fighters to halt attacks on Turkish soil. Security sources said some 30-35 PKK...

Eleven would-be migrants from Syria and Africa drowned when a boat bound for Europe capsized off the Egyptian port of Baltim, security and medical officials said Sunday. The coastguard took into custody 15 survivors identified as Syrians, Egyptian and people of other African nationalities after...

Turkish investigators worked on Sunday to identify the perpetrators and victims of Saturday's bomb blasts which killed at least 95 people in the capital Ankara, while Turks mourned the most deadly attack of its kind on Turkish soil. Two suspected suicide bombers hit a rally of...