The Republican-led U.S. Congress begins a new session Tuesday where it will start laying plans for enacting President-elect Donald Trump's agenda of tax cuts, repeal of Obamacare and the rollback of financial and environmental regulations. With Trump set to be sworn in as president on Jan....

(The Guardian)- A British man has been killed fighting against Islamic State in northern Syria, his family and Kurdish activists have said. Ryan Lock, 20, from Chichester, West Sussex, died on 21 December during an offensive by anti-Islamic State forces to recapture the city of Raqqa, the...

The gunman who killed 39 people at an Istanbul nightclub had fought in Syria for Islamic State jihadists, a report said on Tuesday, as Turkish authorities intensified their hunt for the attacker. Police released pictures of the suspect who went on the rampage at the plush Reina nightclub on...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The year of 2016 was difficult for the southern province of Deraa, after the victories of the resistance. The cradle of Syria's revolution that erupted in March 2011 had endured to unprecedented assassinations of rebel commanders in 2016. The year’s difficulties started...