Headed for the front line near Syria's Raqa, 23-year-old Kurdish fighter Kaziwar has just one thought on her mind: to make her jihadist foes pay for their treatment of women. "Our taking part in the Women's Protection Units (YPJ) is revenge for the women who were kidnapped in Sinjar (in...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The Civil Defense committee in Damascus countryside reported that four civilians were killed and several others injured as a result of regime bombing of Douma city on Thursday.  The Civil Defense confirmed that of the four civilians killed one was a child of 6...

(The Daily Star)- The last remaining food rations are currently being handed out in Syria's rebel-held eastern Aleppo and there will be nothing left to distribute next week without a resupply, the U.N. said Thursday. United Nations aid convoys have not reached the besieged eastern part of...

Oil prices reversed early losses to push higher on Thursday as markets recovered from their initial shock at U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's surprise victory, although traders said that crude fundamentals remained weak. Trump's election initially stunned markets and led Ian Bremmer,...