Syrian government forces edged closer to a key rebel town in the coastal province of Latakia Friday, backed by Russian air strikes and military advisers, activists said. Soldiers and pro-government fighters advanced to around five kilometers (three miles) from the town of Rabia, the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Dozens of regime troops and allied militias have been killed in clashes with ISIS near Mahin town in the eastern countryside of Homs province, activists said Friday. 8 militants from the Syrian Social Nationalist Party (SSNP) were among the dead as the fighting near...

Tunisia has declared a nationwide curfew after days of protests and rioting over jobs and economic conditions, the interior ministry announced . Protests over unemployment in the country, which started in the western Kasserine province, intensified and spread to other parts of the...

Turkey is "closely watching" Russian troop movements in Syria near its border, a government source in Ankara said Friday, after reports that Russian servicemen had deployed in the Syrian border town of Qamishli. Britain-based monitor the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights had said that Russia...