More civilians were killed in the Afghan war in 2018 than during any other year on record after nearly two decades of fighting, according to a UN report released Sunday. Civilian deaths jumped by 11 percent from 2017 with 3,804 people killed and another 7,189 wounded, according to the UN...

"My son will grow up to become a jihadist," a woman cried proudly as she stepped off a bus ferrying people out of the Islamic State group's last sliver of territory in eastern Syria. Defiant and angry, she is one of 2,000 people evacuated Friday from the jihadists' final scrap of territory...

They were living in holes in the ground, with only dry flatbread to eat at the end. They had no clean water to drink, and no medical care for those wounded in an intense military campaign. Yet, if it were not for the call from their leaders to leave, they would have stayed. Such is the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Six children were killed  Friday in Maarrat al-Nu'man when the regime forces hit the northern town with cluster bombs, Idlib Media Center reported.  An array of towns in Idlib province came under regime artillery fire in new regime escalation against the...