A minibus stopped outside the world's largest cemetery in the Iraqi Shiite holy city of Najaf. Five women got out, telephone cameras filming the scene, and dashed excitedly towards a grave. Clad in black, they joined wailing women and men beating their chests in grief at Wadi al-Salam...

 The highway that links the Syrian capital with the northern city of Aleppo is open for public use for the first time in nearly eight years after government forces recently captured parts of it that had been held by insurgents, the transportation minister said Saturday. The reopening...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- A Turkish soldier was killed on Saturday in an attack by Syrian regime forces in the northern Idlib region, the Turkish Defense Ministry said on Twitter. Turkey retaliated to the attack with full force and 21 regime targets were heavily hit and destroyed, said the...

Turkey's president urged Russian President Vladimir Putin in a telephone call Friday to “restrain" the Syrian regime and halt the humanitarian crisis unfolding in northwestern Syria as Damascus wages a military offensive against the last rebel stronghold in the country. Recep Tayyip...