The Pentagon Monday criticized Turkey's plans to purchase a Russian air-defense system instead of investing in NATO technology. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is in talks to get Russia to supply Ankara with its latest S-400 surface-to-air missile system. Pentagon spokesman Navy...

Food access in Syria's battle-torn Raqqa is now at "a critical turning point," aid organisations said Monday, with markets shuttered and residents depending fully on their dwindling stockpiles. Raqqa has been gripped by fierce fighting for nearly two months and the U.S.-backed Syrian...

Yemen is urging the U.S. government to take in dozens of Yemenis who traveled to Malaysia in recent months expecting to immigrate to the United States, only to find themselves stranded by President Donald Trump's temporary travel ban. The ban, which was blocked by lower courts before being...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- A young man named Mohammed al-Masri who lives in the town of Qitta in southern Daraa province, killed his mother and deformed her body in a horrific manner. According to preliminary information, he was one of the practitioners of witchcraft. A patrol of the regime,...