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Blasts kill more than 120 in Tartous, Jableh: monitor

Bomb blasts killed scores of people in the Syrian coastal cities of Jableh and Tartous on Monday, and wounded many others in the government-controlled territory that hosts Russian military bases, monitors and state media said. Islamic State claimed responsibility for the...

Blasts kill 100 in regime bastions in Jableh,Tartus

Multiple explosions carried out by the Islamic State hit the Syrian coastal cities of Jableh and Tartus Monday, killing at least 100 people and wounding dozens in an area that has up to now escaped the worst of the conflict, activists and state-run TV said. At least two of the blasts were...

Iraqi PM announces start of operation to retake Falluja

Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi announced on Monday the launching of a military operation to retake the Islamic State stronghold of Falluja. "Zero hour for the liberation of Falluja has arrived. The moment of great victory has drawn near and Daesh has no choice but to flee," he said on...

Bread shortage becomes Syrians new crisis

(EQTSAD)- Bread bakeries of Latakia countryside adjacent to Turkish borders witness a major crowding by villages’ locals and displaced families to get bread following breakdown of one of the bakeries and stop of production along lack of diesel which runs the bakery and flour material, the main...

People of Saraqib protest for sugar shortage

(Zaman al-Wasl)- Tens of people went to streets in Saraqib town in Idlib province on Saturday protesting lack of some items and traders in the city monopolizing food products. The protesters cut the road connecting to the city of Idlib with burning tires, local sources reported. According to...

9 YPG militants killed in two blasts northeast Syria

(Zaman al-Wasl)- 9 Peoples’ Protection Units (YPG) were killed and dozens injured on Saturday by two car bombs targeting their strongholds in al-Aaliye south of Raas al-Ayn city while dozens were killed and injured in an attack by unknown persons on Sutoro Militia strongholds in the center of...

Taliban leader Mansour 'likely killed' in US drone strike

An American drone strike targeted and "likely killed" Taliban leader Mullah Akhtar Mansour in a remote area of Pakistan on Saturday, U.S. officials said, in a major and rare American military raid in the country. The airstrike, authorized by President Barack Obama, also killed a second adult...

Yemen govt to end peace talks boycott: UN

The Yemeni government delegation is to rejoin UN-brokered peace talks in Kuwait with Shiite rebels who control the capital, ending a four-day boycott, the UN special envoy said on Sunday. The hard-won negotiations on ending a conflict that has killed more than 6,400 people and driven 2.8...

Top US commander makes secret visit to Syria

On a secret trip to Syria, the new commander of U.S. forces in the Middle East said Saturday he felt a moral obligation to enter a war zone to check on his troops and make his own assessment of progress in organizing local Arab and Kurd fighters for what has been a slow campaign to push the...