Three Lebanese soldiers were killed and one was critically wounded on Sunday when their armored vehicle hit a landmine on the Lebanese-Syrian border, a security source said. The area where the soldiers were killed was near a border stronghold close to the mountains of Arsal, where...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 21 worshipers were killed on Saturday when U.S.-led coalition airstrikes struck a mosque at the Syrian-Iraqi border, local activists said.   The U.S. strikes hit the ISIS-held village of al-Jazza’ In the southern countryside of Hasaka city, two days...

Iraqi security forces launched on Sunday an offensive to take back the city of Tal Afar, their next objective in the U.S.-backed campaign to defeat Islamic State militants, Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said. "You either surrender, or die," Abadi said in a televised speech announcing...

Physicist Stephen Hawking found himself in a war of words with Britain's Conservative government after he said it had caused a crisis in the state-run National Health Service (NHS) and was leading it towards a profit-making U.S.-style system. Writing in the Guardian newspaper on Saturday,...