The destruction by ISIS extremists of two key cultural sites in Syria's ancient city of Palmyra is a "war crime", UNESCO said Friday. "This destruction is a new war crime and an immense loss for the Syrian people and for humanity," Irina Bokova, director general of the U.N. cultural agency,...

(The Ringer)- Let me start by making this clear: I want to like President Obama. I want to revere him as one of our nation’s greatest presidents. I want to believe that our imperfect but self-correcting democracy somehow got it right and elected one of its best people to lead it for eight...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 100 Fateh al-Sham fighters have been killed late on Thursday in U.S. air strikes hit a training camp in northern Aleppo province, a U.S. defense official said. The strike was carried out Thursday by an Air Force B-52 bomber and an undisclosed number of...

 Iran's government and entities close to the elite Revolutionary Guards have signed major economic contracts with Syria, reaping what appear to be lucrative rewards for helping President Bashar al-Assad regain control of parts of his country from rebels. An opposition group condemned the...