Heavy clashes between the Syrian regime forces and the Islamic State group in Deir Ezzor city have killed at least 73 fighters in the last 24 hours, a monitor said Sunday. The regime army controls most of Deir Ezzor city, capital of Deir Ezzor province in the country's east, and made...

At least 11 civilians were killed and a school day violently interrupted amid intensive Syrian regime shelling of a rebel-held enclave north of the capital Damascus Sunday, sending panicked kindergarten children scurrying for shelter, opposition activists reported. The Britain-based...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- About 20 prisoners broke out of a rebel-held jail in southern Daraa province, shedding the light of the deteriorating security condition in Daraa after a series of assassinations and car bombs, local activists said on Sunday. The inmates who were charged with drug...

Somali security forces have ended a night-long siege by at a Mogadishu hotel by five extremist attackers who stormed the building after a suicide car bomber detonated an explosives-laden vehicle at the entrance gate Saturday afternoon. The attack killed 23 people. Troops regained...