At least seven Sunni mosques and dozens of shops in eastern Iraq were firebombed Tuesday, security sources and local officials said, a day after 23 people were killed there in two blasts claimed by ISIS. Ten people were also shot and killed in Muqdadiya, 80 km (50 miles) northeast of...

 ( Zaman Al Wasl)- Russia has staged more deadly strikes on the northern countryside of Aleppo on Tuesday, killing at least 35 people, activists said. The devastating strikes on the ISIS-held town of Manbej have killed 25 civilians and wounded 40 more people. In...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Activists reported on Tuesday fierce fighting between regime troops and rebels at the gates of Salma village in the coastal Latakia province, Bashar al-Assad's heartland. Regime troops backed by their allied militias have pressed more advances the northeastern countryside of...

 Russian President Vladimir Putin said Tuesday it was premature to say whether Moscow would grant asylum to embattled Syrian leader Bashar Assad, who had made "many mistakes." "You know I believe that it is premature to discuss this," Putin said in the second half of a two-part interview...