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Car bomb near Syrian capital kills 5

A car bomb exploded Sunday in a government-held area outside the Syrian capital, killing at least five people and wounding 15, state media said. The car bomb was detonated outside Sasa, southwest of Damascus. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, an opposition-run monitoring...

Iraqi forces fight ISIS near ancient site in Mosul

Iraqi special forces, backed by U.S.-led air raids, clashed with ISIS militants near a historic site in Mosul Sunday, an officer in Iraq's counter-terrorism service said, as they tried to drive the extremists out of more districts in the city. The elite counter-terrorism service (CTS) has...

4 dead in Palestinian truck-ramming in occupied Jerusalem

A truck driven by a Palestinian rammed into pedestrians on a popular promenade in occupied Jerusalem Sunday killing four people, according to Israeli police who called it a deliberate attack. "It is a terrorist attack, a ramming attack," a police spokeswoman said on Israel Radio. Police...

Airstrikes resume on rebel-held Damascus water-source valley

Airstrikes resumed Sunday in a rebel-held valley near Damascus containing the Syrian capital's main water supply, a day after insurgents and the government failed to agree a plan to repair the springs knocked out of service two weeks ago. The government and allied fighters from the...