Russia's Defence Ministry said on Thursday a ceasefire was still holding in the Syrian city of Aleppo and a similar arrangement around the town of Daraya in Damascus province was extended until midnight on June 18. During the last 24 hours, the ministry registered four breaches of the...

 Islamic State's "terrorism capacity and global reach" have not been reduced, the director of the Central Intelligence Agency said on Thursday, adding that the group has tens of thousands of fighters around the world, far more than al Qaeda had at its height. John Brennan told U.S....

Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- People in the southern countryside of Hasaka still suffer from hard living conditions even after controlling the area by the U.S.-backed Syria Democratic Forces (SDF), even the situation has become worse than before when they were under the...

 Islamic State is committing the crime of genocide against the Yazidis in Syria and Iraq, seeking to destroy the ethno-religious group of 400,000 people through killings, sexual slavery and other crimes, United Nations investigators said on Thursday. Their report, based on interviews with...