Turkey’s army dispatched tanks to southeastern Sirnak province's Silopi district, a military source said Tuesday. According to the source, who asked to remain anonymous, the tanks were from the Ankara-based 28th Mechanized Infantry Brigade and will travel close to the Iraqi border. The...

 Danish police have issued an international arrest warrant for a Syrian refugee whose wife and two daughters were found murdered in the family's apartment in southern Denmark. Police said Tuesday they suspect that 33-year-old Hamid Farid Mohammed "may have had something to do with the...

(Eqtsad) Abu Stayef, a taxi driver in Idlib, believes that the profits from his profession were much higher before the start of the war in Syria.  Abu Stayef has been a taxi driver for 40 years, working in Idlib and Hama passing through Homs and each reaching the capital...

Elite Iraqi forces were poised Tuesday for a first push into Mosul, after the prime minister warned jihadists who hold the city they have no choice but to surrender or die. Forces from Iraq's Counter-Terrorism Service (CTS) were fighting IS in Gogjali, a village on the eastern edge of Mosul...

Hundreds of rescuers Tuesday were struggling to find 18 coal miners still trapped a day after a gas explosion killed 15 of their colleagues in western China. Whether the 18 are alive was not known more than 24 hours after the blast ripped through the privately owned Jinshangou mine in the...

Turkish Armed Forces hit 120 Daesh and two PKK/PYD targets in northern Syria as part of Operation Euphrates Shield on Monday, said the army in a written statement on Tuesday. Turkey’s Operation Euphrates Shield was launched in late August to clear Syria's northern border area of terrorists....

Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu said on Tuesday a Western failure to rein in violent Islamists in Syria had indefinitely delayed the resumption of peace talks. In remarks broadcast on Russian television, Shoigu said that rebels backed by Western governments had been attacking...

(BBC)- The prime minister of Iraq has urged the Islamic State group to surrender as government troops close in on its last urban stronghold in the country, Mosul. Haider al-Abadi appeared on state TV wearing combat fatigues and said: "They have no choice. Either they surrender or they die."...

(Independent)- Nearly half of Russians fear Moscow's intervention in Syrian conflict could lead to World War III, a poll has found.  Moscow, a key ally of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, has been conducting bombing raids in Syria since September 2015. Forty-eight per cent of...

(Los Angeles Times)- The guns have been silenced; that is the first change a returning visitor notices while driving around Syria’s capital. In years past, the booms of artillery, mortars and rockets exchanged between the forces of Syrian President Bashar Assad and the rebels arrayed against...

(MSF)- It was just after lunch on a day in late September. Nine-year-old Abdul Hadi was playing in front of his house in eastern Aleppo when a barrel bomb fell from the sky. Hadi was knocked unconscious and sustained injuries to his head. Days later, Syrian and Russian forces stepped up their...

Reporting by Faris Rifai (Zaman Al Wasl)- The icon of “happiness smuggler” to Aleppo has fallen down, that was the title of the Lebanese Hezbollah supporting al-Akhbar newspaper about Rami Adham, 44, Syrian Finnish activist who has been working for 5 years in bringing toys to Syrian children...

(The Guardian)- Eight civilians from one family, three of them children, were killed by a US airstrike on their home a few kilometres outside Mosul, relatives, officials and Kurdish troops fighting in the area say. The attack came after a week of heavy fighting in Fadhiliya village, where...

(The Daily Sabah)- Journalists from Western newspapers and TV stations, in addition to politicians and academics, have been invited to attend a pro-Assad regime conference held in Damascus, organized by the British Syrian Society. During a two-day workshop reportedly organized by Syrian leader...

(News Deeply)- On September 17, U.S., British, Danish and Australian warplanes attacked a Syrian military base in Deir Ezzor that had been holding out against the so-called Islamic State (ISIS) for months. The U.S.-led coalition’s airstrikes killed at least 62 Syrian troops before a frantic...

French riot police swooped on a makeshift migrant camp in northeast Paris on Monday, sparking a brief standoff at a site where numbers have soared since the closure of the Jungle shanty town in the northern port city of Calais. The operation, largely consisting of identity checks on some of...

(The Guardian)- Olivier Giroud hopes to stake a claim for greater involvement at Arsenal by impressing on his first start of the season against Ludogorets Razgrad on Tuesday. The France international is convinced his “turn will come” after a slow start to his campaign. The striker returned...

 Turkey wants the operation on Raqqa, ISIS' main stronghold in Syria, to start after Mosul and Euphrates Shield operations have been completed, Deputy Prime Minister Numan Kurtulmus said on Monday. "Turkey's stance on the Raqqa operation is clear. It would be better both militarily and...

(Middle East Eye)- Saudi-led raids on rebel-held security buildings and a prison in the west of Yemen killed at least 60 people on Saturday, officials said on Sunday as the death toll from the attacks rose. A provincial official said that dozens of bodies were transported to hospitals in the...

(The New York Times)- The lime-green buses once ferried Syrians to school, work and dates at Damascus cafes. Now they pull up at moments of defeat, when rebel fighters and civilians, besieged and bombarded, give up their territory to government forces and board the vehicles en route to an...