(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian rebels on Tuesday launched  major offensive in the central Hama province, taking two towns and destroying two fighters jets in Hama military airbase, activists and spokesman said. The towns of Soran and Maadaras were taken by rebels after surprise attack. Jaish...

Iraqi army helicopters strafed and fired rockets at ISIS positions in Mosul's Old City on Sunday as troops on the ground closed in on the strategic and symbolic prize of the al-Nuri Mosque. Federal Police troops had advanced past the train station in western Mosul closer to the mosque. A...

Shihab Ayed and several other men struggled to push a cart carrying the bodies of his son and wife, wrapped in blankets, through a muddy ditch nearly two miles (3 km) from their destroyed home in Mosul. Four other carts followed, laden with days-old corpses from air strikes which the men...

(Sky News)- North Korea's leader Kim Jong-Un has announced a "new birth" in his country's rocket programme after overseeing a test. It comes as the US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson meets Chinese President Xi Jinping - who he hopes will help to curb North Korea's nuclear weapons programme....