A senior Syrian government minister on Sunday dismissed as a "joke" plans by the Kurdish-led administration in northern Syria to hold elections and said they would not be allowed to threaten the country's territorial unity. Deputy foreign minister Faisal Mekdad also said the Syrian...

A top United Nations official in Yemen said reported airstrikes in which at least 12 civilians were killed, including children, were an example of the "disregard" for civilians' safety shown by all the combatants in Yemen's civil war. The civilians were killed and 10 others wounded in Sa'ada...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 105 army forces, including 10 officers, killed by the Islamic State in Hama province in a week of the heaviest fighting and shelling for months, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and activists said. The clashes were accompanied by heavy bombardment, with...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime forces backed by Shi'ite militias launched major offensive near the Jordanian-Syrian border to recapture territory seized last week by U.S.-backed rebels, rebel spokesman said. Saad al-Haj, spokesman for Jaish Osoud al-Sharqiya, key rebel group operating...