Gunmen shot dead five female airport workers and their driver in southern Afghanistan Saturday, underlining the threat to employed women in the country. The women were in a van driving to the airport in the southern Kandahar province when at least three gunmen on motorcycles opened fire at...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The doctors and staff in al-Assad Hospital in coastal Latakia city are pursuing a policy of loot as hospital will be turned over to the regime Ministry of Defense in 2 January 2017 based on al-Assad’s decision issued in the last week of November. Social media pages and...

The fall of Aleppo is a human catastrophe. It’s also a demonstration of the perils of choosing the middle course in a military conflict. Sometimes it’s possible to talk and fight at the same time. But in Syria, the U.S. decision to pursue a dual-track, halfway approach made the mayhem worse....

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump said Friday his administration would build "safe zones" to try to help civilians trapped in Syria's bloody conflict, an idea that President Barack Obama said would be too hard to enforce. Trump and Obama spoke separately of the conflict after efforts to...