(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 19 US-backed fighters killed in car bomb attacks carried out by Daesh near the Iraqi border, activists said Thursday. Daesh blasts rocked a checkpoint for the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in Hawi Soussa and al-Basira villages as Kurdish-led forces press...

The U.S.-led coalition hit a mosque Thursday believed to be a military command post for Daesh in northern Syria. The strike "destroyed an ISIS command and control facility in a mosque" in Safafiyah town in Deir ez-Zor province, the coalition said in a statement, using another name for...

A general strike paralyzed daily life in Tunisia on Thursday with tens of thousands of public-sector employees staying home to demand higher wages. The Tunisian General Labor Union (TGLU), the country’s largest labor union, urged civil servants to take part in the strike after Wednesday...

Russia deployed some of its best air defenses to Syria to keep US missiles and jets at bay as the US military's immense air and naval power fought ISIS in close proximity — but the supposedly airtight defenses are routinely defeated by Israel. In February 2017, a Syrian-manned...