Russia’s Defense Ministry said on Tuesday an employee had attached the wrong photos to a statement accusing the United States of providing de-facto air cover for Islamic State in Syria after the mistake was spotted online. The ministry said it would investigate the incident,...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Dozens of ivilians, including children, killed and wounded in Russian airstrikes on a marketplace in Atareb town in northern Aleppo province despite a "de-escalation zone" in place there, a monitor and local activists said on Monday. The initial...

Daesh (ISIS) militants regained control of Albukamal, their last stronghold in Syria, after Iranian-backed militias who claimed to have captured the city a few days earlier were ambushed and forced to retreat, tribal leaders, residents and a war monitor said on Monday. Fighters from...

An earthquake with a magnitude of 7.3 has struck Iraq, about 20 miles (32km) southwest of the city of Halabjah, near to the Iraq-Iran border, the US Geological Survey has said. It initially said the quake was of a magnitude 7.2, before revising it to 7.3. An official from the...