A Kurdish militant group Sunday claimed responsibility for twin attacks that ripped through the heart of Istanbul, killing 38 people, most of them police, a news agency reported. The claim was made by the Kurdistan Freedom Falcons (TAK), seen as an splinter group of the better-known...

The Syrian army and its allies made new gains in Aleppo on Sunday, forcing rebels back into an ever shrinking pocket crammed with civilians, but lost control of the desert city of Palmyra to a swift Islamic State attack. Final victory in Aleppo, Syria's biggest city before the civil war,...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime’s negotiation representative offers rebel factions in in the southern Damascus suburbs to stay on condition of joining the National Defense Forces, or they must leave the area by 20th of December. A well-informed source reported to Zaman al-Wasl that a meeting...

  (Zaman Al Wasl)- ISIS says it has shot down a Syrian regime warplane near the historic city of Palmyra as the radical group launched major offensive to take oil-rich areas in eastern Homs province. The group's Aamaq news agency said Saturday that the militants downed the jet near the...