ISIS detonated explosives in the largest hotel in western Mosul Friday, in an attempt to destroy it and prevent Iraqi forces from using it as a landing spot or base in their offensive to capture the city, witnesses said on Sunday. The Mosul Hotel, shaped as a step pyramid, appeared to be...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime warplanes killed 7 people on Sunday in air strikes hit the embattled northern countryside of Homs province a day before the start of Syrian peace talks in Astana, local activists said. The aerial bombing targeted the twons of Talbiesh, Rastan and al-Houleh....

Whatever the expectations for President Trump’s new relationship with Russia, anyone looking for a dramatic shift from the Kremlin is going to have to wait past Day One.  While some Russian companies and political activists have taken advantage of “Trumpomania” here, holding...

(Al-Jazeera)- A letter from a young woman to her fallen husband, a pro-Assad fighter in Syria, was recently published in Tasnim News, one of Iran's most prominent news agencies affiliated with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). "This shrine [the Zaynab shrine] is sacred ... I am...