Iran's former President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani died Sunday after a decades-long career in the ruling elite, where his moderate views were not always welcome but his cunning guided him through revolution, war and the country's turbulent politics. The political survivor's life spanned the...

A car bomb exploded Sunday in a government-held area outside the Syrian capital, killing at least five people and wounding 15, state media said. The car bomb was detonated outside Sasa, southwest of Damascus. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, an opposition-run monitoring...

A truck driven by a Palestinian rammed into pedestrians on a popular promenade in occupied Jerusalem Sunday killing four people, according to Israeli police who called it a deliberate attack. "It is a terrorist attack, a ramming attack," a police spokeswoman said on Israel Radio. Police...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- PYD’s militants launched new conscription campaign in northeastern Hasaka province, conducting patrols on civil houses and arresting dozens of young men, activists said Sunday. Activit Malaz al-Yusuf reported that militias of “Military Discipline Units” of Democratic...