In the courtyard of an apartment building in the town of Gori in ex-Soviet Georgia is a clue to whether Russia's air strikes on targets in Syria are as accurate as the Kremlin would like the rest of the world to believe. Fashioned out of fragments of ordnance is a makeshift shrine to the five...

A powerful earthquake struck a remote area of Afghanistan on Monday, shaking the capital Kabul and killing at least 24 people while 76 were killed in neighboring Pakistan, officials said. The death toll could climb in coming days because communications were down in much of...

Islamic State has published on the social media photos showing its last gains against Syrian regime and allied militias in the southern countryside of Aleppo city. ISIS said on Friday it had taken control of eight army checkpoints on the road and cut off the regime army supply route to...

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has raised the possibility of revoking benefits and travel rights of some Palestinians living in East Jerusalem, a government official said on Monday, in response to a wave of Palestinian violence. Such a move did not appear to be imminent or even politically...

Lewis Hamilton joined the elite group of triple Formula One world champions on Sunday after winning a thrilling U.S. Grand Prix that kept the crowd on tenterhooks right to the very end. "That's the greatest moment of my life," he gasped over the team radio, choking back the...

An alliance of Free Syrian Army-related groups in southern Syria said on Monday Russia must stop bombing rebels before they could talk about cooperating with it, saying they hadn't turned down an offer of support but Moscow must first halt its attacks. In comments marking a...

Two Turkish policemen and four Islamic State militants were killed in a firefight after police raided a house in Turkey's southeast early on Monday, security sources said. The clashes in the Kayapinar district of the mainly Kurdish city of Diyarbakir were on-going, the sources said....

(Translation by Yusra Ahmed) The Lebanese human rights activist Nabil Halabi released on his personal facebook page that news about freeing Abir al-Jaoor, the abducted Syrian girl who was abducted by a former criminal close to the Hezbollah militia in the town Alain in Baalabek area, and she...

Nusra Front's Twitter accounts said dozens of Syrian regime army were killed south of Aleppo in an ambush set by the al-Qaeda-linked group. Meanwhile, three civilians killed and tens wounded in Russian air strikes on the ISIS-held town of al Bab near Aleppo, activists said....

A new round of fierce fighting flared up Sunday between moderate rebels and forces loyal to Bashar al-Assad in the southern countryside of Aleppo city. A rebel source in al Shamiyeh Front told Zaman al Wasl that dozens of regime troops and their allied militia have been killed in cement...

 Teir Malla Media Office mourned Sunday journalist Mahmoud Al Louz, who died of wounds sustained during his covering for the Syrian regime offensive on northern countryside of Homs. Al Louz, who escaped death three times since the revolution erupted in March 2011, has lost his live due to...

Human Rights Watch Sunday called for a thorough and impartial investigation into the death of two Tunisian detainees in suspicious circumstances in separate cases. "Relatives of both men provided photographs showing marks and bruises on their faces and bodies, and said that authorities had...

 The U.S.-led coalition fighting ISIS militants in Iraq and Syria carried out 22 airstrikes Saturday, most of them against targets near the Iraqi towns of Kisik, Ramadi and Sinjar, the U.S. military said Sunday. A coalition statement did not report any airstrikes in Syria Saturday....

Israel has arrested more than 1,000 Palestinians and Arab Israelis since the October 1 surge in violence, the Palestinian Prisoners Club said Sunday. Most of them were young men and women, the Ramallah-based aid group said. The most arrests -- 221 -- occurred in the southern West Bank city of...

A new member of Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) has been killed in northern countryside of Aleppo, activists said Sunday. Mustafa Sader Zadeh was a senior commander in Fatemiyoun Brigade which is formed of Iran-based Afghan expatriates who are trained by Tehran to fight in...

Ever since they expelled ISIL from Tal Abyad in mid-June, Syria’s Kurds have been at the centre of many rumours. In particular, there has been talk of upcoming battles against ISIL in northern Syria, including Kurdish-Russian cooperation. The idea of a Kurdish-led offensive to capture Raqqa...

The United States and Saudi Arabia agreed to increase support to Syria's moderate opposition while seeking a political resolution of the four-year conflict, the U.S. State Department said after Secretary of State John Kerry met King Salman on Saturday. Kerry was in Riyadh for meetings with...

Yemeni forces loyal to President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi made gains on Sunday in the southwestern city of Taiz after days of intense battles with Houthi fighters, a local official and residents said. The Haddi supporters, who have been backed by air strikes from a Saudi-led coalition...

Translation by Yusra Ahmed) (Eqtsad) Rural Homs-  “Moneh”, the stored food Syrian families used to make, has been for centuries very essential on meals especially in Winter, and they are stored in special room in houses away from heat and sun Almost 90% of the Syrian families,...

Syria's President Bashar al-Assad is willing to eventually hold parliamentary and presidential elections and is ready to run himself for president, a Russian lawmaker told AFP from Damascus on Sunday. "He is ready to conduct elections with the participation of all political forces who want...