Around 50,000 Syrians are stranded in no-man's land along the border with Jordan, a three-fold increase since January because of increased security checks, state news agency Petra reported Monday. The agency, quoting government spokesman Mohamed Momani, said the estimated 50,000 refugees were...

Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- Ten Islamist factions launched Monday a new battle against regime forces in the coastal Latakia province, seeking to regain ground they lost early this year. The rebel groups, in statement posted online, said they formed a command room to deter...

One person was killed and another wounded when four rockets hit the southeastern Turkish town of Kilis near the Syrian border on Monday, security sources said. Kilis, just across from an area of Syria controlled by ISIS, has been a frequent target of rocket fire in recent weeks. Separately,...

The biggest earthquake in Ecuador in decades has killed 272 people -- but that toll will 'certainly' rise even further, the president said as overwhelmed rescuers struggled to pull survivors out of the destruction. The 7.8-magnitude quake struck the small, oil-producing South American...