( The Guardian )- Nearly 70 children were among those killed when a suicide car bombing tore through buses carrying evacuees from besieged government-held towns in Syria, a monitoring group has said. Saturday’s blast hit a convoy carrying residents from the northern towns of Fuaa and...

The death toll from a bomb attack on a crowded bus convoy outside Aleppo has reached at least 126 in the deadliest such incident in Syria in almost a year, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group said on Sunday. Syrian rescue workers of the Civil Defense said that they had...

  (Zaman Al Wasl)- Free Syrian Army forces pounded strategic military airport of Hama city with more than 40 Grad rockets as the regime regained strategic town of Soran, rebel news feeds said Sunday. Hama military airport is not operating due to heavy surface-to-surface rockets attack,...

 Libya's unity government has called for "urgent intervention" by the international community to end military escalation in its south, warning of a possible "civil war". For more than a week, militias allied to the U.N.-backed Government of National Accord have fought off rival forces...

Hundreds of Iraqi Christians gathered on Sunday in a church damaged by Islamic State north of Mosul, celebrating Easter there for the first time since 2014. "God willing, the celebration of the resurrection of Christ will also mark the return and rising-up of the Christians in Iraq," said...

The Gaza Strip's only functioning power plant was out of action Sunday after running out of fuel, the head of the territory's electricity provider told AFP. Samir Metir said that all the plant's fuel, purchased with funding from Qatar and Turkey, had been used up. He said it was not...

Pope Francis denounced "oppressive regimes" in his Easter message Sunday but in an apparent call for restraint urged world leaders to prevent the spread of conflicts, as tensions rose in North Korea and Syria. Francis, marking the fifth Easter season of his pontificate, said Mass before tens...

Iraqi forces launched a new attack on ISIS in Mosul's Old City Sunday, military officials said, trying to break the stalemate in attempts to seize the militants' last stronghold. Mosul, Iraq's second biggest city, was captured by the Sunni Muslim fighters in 2014, but government forces have...

( Washington Institute fro Near East Policy )- As the aviation community and international media fixate on recent Boeing and Airbus orders by Iranian airlines, Tehran continues to quietly purchase secondhand aircraft and parts through smaller companies, actively circumventing...

U.S. National Security Advisor Gen. H.R McMaster arrived in Kabul Sunday days after the American military dropped its largest non-nuclear bomb on ISIS hideouts in eastern Afghanistan, killing nearly a hundred militants. On his first visit to the country as President Donald Trump's envoy,...

North Korea Sunday staged a fresh missile test, a day after staging a defiant giant military parade and hours before US Vice President Mike Pence arrived in South Korea for talks on curbing Pyongyang's weapons programmes. The South Korean and US military said the latest launch -- conducted...

The death toll in a suicide car bomb attack on buses carrying Syrians evacuated from two besieged government-held towns has risen to at least 112, a monitoring group said Sunday. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said that 98 evacuees from the northern towns of Fuaa and Kafraya...

In the foothills of the Aspromonte mountains in southern Italy, the silence of a once-dying village is broken by the laughter of a small group of refugees. Tiny Sant'Alessio has been welcoming families and vulnerable migrants here for three years in a project which not only provides...

China's top diplomat Yang Jiechi and U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson exchanged views on the situation on the Korean Peninsula via phone Sunday, China's official Xinhua News Agency said. Xinhua did not give further details. A North Korean missile "blew up almost immediately" on its...

Iraqi forces made major gains in the six months since launching the operation to retake Mosul, but the battle for Iraq's second city and the war against ISIS are far from over. Tough close-quarters fighting in heavily-populated areas of Mosul is still ahead, and ISIS also holds territory in...

Syrian President Bashar Assad is an "arch-terrorist" and it is time Russia realized he is "literally and metaphorically toxic", British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson said Sunday. Johnson said Assad's ally Moscow still had time to be on the "right side of the argument", in a Sunday...

Turks began voting in a hotly contested referendum Sunday that could place sweeping new powers in the hands of President Tayyip Erdogan and herald the most radical change to the country's political system in its modern history. Opinion polls have given a narrow lead for a "Yes" vote, which...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- One man was killed and ten more people were wounded Sunday when regime warplanes struck Houla region in central Homs province, local reporter said. The regime jets carried at raids on Kafrlaha town in rebel-held Houla region, an array of agriculture villages. Four...

By Shams el-Deen Matoun (Eqtsad)- Cost of marriage in Syria, like all other services and issues, have become difficult and costing, not only the dowry that is paid to the wife to prepare herself and clothes before marriage, as people started to ignore it and just recorded on the marriage...

  (Zaman Al Wasl)- “We treated them with respect because they are our kin, and this is what our religion dictates we do. Our mission is humanitarian, and we have taken the Hippocratic oath,” said the director of a field hospital in Aleppo after a suicide car bomb attack on buses carrying...