Government forces and Shiite militiamen repelled an ISIS attack Friday that left 10 soldiers dead in Anbar province, officials said. ISIS attacked the government-held town of Khalidiyah with mortar bombs and five suicide car bombs, Anbar councilman Athal al-Fahdawi said. They retreated after an...

Momentum that has swept Syrian rebels to a series of swift victories over President Bashar Assad appears to have slowed in two major attacks aimed at capturing the cities of Aleppo in the north and Deraa in the south. The reasons include a determined military effort by the government and its...

(Translation by Yusra Ahmed) Syria's Salamiyeh city in the eastern countryside of Hama province is no longer surrounded with fear in the east, sadness and dust in the south like what Mohammed al-Maghout, the city’s well-known poet,  described it years ago. Today, Salamiyeh is surrounded...

  Thousands turned out to pay respects Friday on the eve of the 20th anniversary of the Srebrenica massacre as 136 more coffins of identified victims were brought to a memorial centre to be buried the next day. Bosnian soldiers in battlefield uniforms, survivors of the...