Yemeni forces recaptured Aden's international airport and some city districts from Houthi militia fighters on Tuesday, in a sudden advance after months of stalemate, the exiled government said. Yemenis on social media reported celebrations in cities across the country's south,...

By Hassan Hassan ( The National )- Consider two heart-wrenching scenes that recently emerged from Syria. The first one is of children lining up behind 25 soldiers in the historic city of Palmyra, pointing pistols at the soldiers’ heads. The second is of a child killed in his Aleppo home by a...

Two senior Islamic State leaders were killed in an air strike in northeastern Syria on Monday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported. The Observatory, which gathers its information from an activist network on the ground, identified the leaders as an Iraqi, Abu Osama...

(By Ethar Abdulhaq; Translation by Yusra Ahmed) A leaked document from the archive of the Syrian regime showed that in 2015, the Syrian regime reported 686 defected soldiers and officers, most of them were of relatively high ranks, as almost 53% of them were sergeant and first sergeants, and...