The UN has carried out its first successful humanitarian airdrop in Syria, the organization said Monday. On Sunday, food packages from the World Food Program (WFP) were parachuted to the eastern city of Deir ez-Zor, where 200,000 civilians have been besieged by Daesh forces since March 2014....

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 21 fighters from the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) have been killed and 3 held captive in an Isis offensive on SDF stronghold south of al-Shadadi town in Hasaka province, activists said. Local sources said clashes erupted between Isis and PYD-led SDF...

Five migrants - four women and one child - drowned when their boat capsized off the Greek island of Samos close to Turkey's coast, Greek coast guard officials said on Saturday. Five other migrants were rescued, the officials said, and coast guard vessels assisted by a...

Reporting by Faris al-Rifai; Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- The Local Coordination Committee of the newly ISIS-liberated city of Palmyra launched Friday a campaign to highlight the miserable situation of people of the ancient city, according to statement posted Friday. The...