(The Guardian)- While US and European politicians wring their hands and indulge in recriminations over the fall of Aleppo, Russia, Iran and Bashar al-Assad’s Syrian regime are celebrating a “historic” victory they believe has turned the tide in the six-year-old war. “Is there...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 352  regime army soldiers and allied militants have been killed in a week of intense fighting with the Islamic State in the eastern countryside of Homs province as the radical group recaptured the historic city of Palmyra, the group-run news agency Amaq reported....

Italy’s largest bank, Unicredit, plans to raise 13 billion euros ($13.8 billion) in the country’s biggest-ever share issue to shore up its balance sheet and shield itself from a broader banking crisis. The plans announced Tuesday, which also include 14,000 job cuts, come at a turbulent time...

Amina Hamawy burst into tears and then fainted when she returned to eastern Aleppo to find that looters had ransacked her home. "Where am I? What happened?" she asked after her husband and daughter revived her. "We have lost everything." They were among a few hundred residents who fled...