(Zaman al-Wasl) On Friday night, the Syrian resistance bombed regime held locations close to al-Jib al-Ahmar and Beit Abu Resheh in al-Akrad Mountain in Latakia countryside with BM-21 rockets and mortar rockets killing an officer and wounding several members of the regime army.  The...

The Somali government on Friday demanded an explanation from the United States on an airstrike, which Somalia said had killed 22 people. The attack allegedly struck the Galmudug administration army facility in the village of Jehdin in the Mudug region of north-central Somalia. A...

As Syrian regime forces advanced in Aleppo, backed by a deadly Russian air campaign, Doctors Without Borders (MSF) decried the "bloodbath," saying the battleground city's eastern rebel-held portion had become "a giant kill box". Syria's army was advancing on two Aleppo fronts, as talks...

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, in a meeting last week with a small number of Syrian civilians and others, said he had lost an argument within the Obama administration to back up diplomatic efforts to end the bloodshed in Syria with the threat of using military force, the New York Times...