(Zaman Al Wasl)- Two people were killed and 5 more wounded on Friday in Russian airstrikes on the northwestern province of Idlib, Civil Defence agency said. The strikes hit the town of Jisr al-Shughour that has endured to heavy bombing during the week. Russia’s...

A prominent militant commander was killed by a rival hardline group in northern Syria early Friday, a monitor said, in a new hint of fierce intra-rebel tensions in the area. An array of factions still hold parts of Aleppo province and almost all of neighboring Idlib, but they have...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 20 troops from coastal Tartus province killed in the first two weeks of February, local activists said. Tartus is the main manpower supply for the regime army and its backed militias. Posters of dead young fighters have been sweeping the streets of Tartus and...

VATICAN CITY (AP)-  The Vatican said Thursday that Pope Francis meets frequently with victims of sexual abuse, seeking to defuse a mounting scandal over his unbridled support for a Chilean bishop accused by victims of witnessing and ignoring their abuse. Spokesman Greg Burke said...