Kurdish-led fighters are approaching a strategic dam controlled by ISIS in northern Syria after days of fighting that killed a senior ISIS military commander, a spokesman for the U.S.-backed forces and others said Tuesday. Talal Sillo of the Syria Democratic Forces said the fighters,...

 Mehdi Karroubi, a leading member of the Iranian opposition who has been under house arrest for almost six years, announced he is quitting his party, Iranian media reported on Tuesday. Karroubi and Mir Hossein Mousavi were reformist candidates during the 2009 presidential election, and...

Russia's Foreign Ministry said Tuesday it viewed a U.S. decision to ease restrictions on weapons supplies to Syrian rebels as a "hostile act" which threatened the safety of Russian warplanes and military personnel, the RIA news agency reported. RIA quoted the ministry as saying the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- New information showed the security penetration of al-Tawhid Brigade by the Syrian regime intelligence, which resulted in killing Abdelqader al-Saleh, known as “Hajji Marea” by a Syrian air force bombing raid November 13, 2013 while he was in a meeting with commanders of...