A parole committee has decided to grant early release to Israeli ex-prime minister Ehud Olmert, who is serving a 27-month prison sentence for corruption, his lawyer said Thursday. "The committee accepted all our arguments," Olmert's lawyer Shani Illouz told public radio. "As of now, Olmert...

( CBS )- A dirt airstrip for the U.S. military and a storage space for over 100 tons of munitions is carved out of the desert in northern Syria. It's an American logistics hub for the fight to retake Raqqa -- the so-called ISIS capital -- that began almost a month ago. Lt. Gen. Stephen...

France said on Thursday it saw a chance to break the stalemate in Syria's war as Russia now seemed to accept there could be no military solution and preconditions set by some opponents of President Bashar Assad had been dropped. The election of President Emmanuel Macron has provided an...

( Middle East Eye )- Back when Samer al-Kadri ran a publishing house producing children’s books in Damascus, he dreamt of opening a cultural centre, but it was only when he was forced to flee his homeland that he established one. After opening Pages, a successful bookshop and cultural...