Russia has never concealed the fact that it has been supplying military equipment to Syria aimed at fighting terrorism, RIA Novosti news agency cited a foreign ministry spokeswoman as saying on Monday. The agency, citing the ministry's spokeswoman Maria Zakharova, also reported that Foreign...

 France's president says the country will send reconnaissance planes over Syria beginning Tuesday to help in the fight against ISIS. President Francois Hollande says terror attacks have been planned from Syria against several countries, including France. He said his responsibility is to...

A huge duststorm hit Syria's provinces of Idlib, Homs and Latakia on Monday amid forecast reports say it's the fiercest in decades, in time regime supporters say the storm comes in favor of ISIS fighters who took an oil-rich village in northern countryside of Homs. Activists have praised the...

Syrian rebels have killed 10 Syrian regime soldiers in a counterattack on their post in the embattled town of Zabadani near the Lebanese border, activists said Sunday. In retaliation regime army has extended fierce bombardment on Zabadani town, about 45 km (30 miles) northwest of the capital...

The overpowering stench of the rubbish piling up in Lebanon's streets has become a potent symbol of the political rot protesters blame not only for the garbage crisis but a gridlocked sectarian power system unable to meet citizens’ most basic needs, from electricity to water, health to...

The mother of a Palestinian toddler killed in a July arson attack in the Israeli-occupied West Bank died on Monday of her burns, the third fatality after her husband succumbed to his injuries last month. Soon after the announcement by medical authorities, Palestinians rallied in the...

Kurdish militants said on Sunday they had killed 15 soldiers in an attack on an army convoy in southeast Turkey, and a security source said the military responded with air strikes. In a statement posted online, the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) said its guerrillas had...

An individual suspected of human trafficking resulting in the death of 12 people off the southern coast of Bodrum, Turkey, last week has been detained in the southern Mugla province on Sunday. The Turkish suspect was taken into custody in Bodrum district in an operation conducted by...

At least 12 people were killed Sunday when the Syrian regime targeted opposition-held towns in the provinces of Damascus and Idlib with vacuum bombs and explosive-laden waste containers, according to civil defense sources. At least six civilians were killed, and dozens injured when the Syrian...

Thousands of Swedes rallied in support of refugees on a square in the capital on Sunday, and Prime Minister Stefan Lofven told them it was time for other countries to do more to help tackle Europe's migration crisis. Sweden has a decades-long record of welcoming refugees from...

Tunisian authorities warned of possible car bombings in the capital Tunis and banned traffic in parts of the city after receiving intelligence reports about potential attacks, the state news agency TAP said on Sunday. The North African country is under a state of emergency after...

The Islamic State on Sunday has taken control of Jazel village in the northern countryside of Homs city, the hardline group said in statement as its fighters keep encircling a nearby oil field. Supporters of the the radical group said ISIS is pressing hard to capture Jazel oil field after...

Syrian state media said on Sunday that an Islamist insurgent had confessed after his arrest to being behind two car bomb blasts that killed 37 people in the south of the country on Friday, including a Druze leader. The explosions had provoked protests by Druze in the city of...

Al Qaeda's Syria wing the Nusra Front has blown up an army checkpoint east Hama city, killing number of military personnel including two officers, sources told Zaman al-Wasl Sunday. Al Sammakh checkpoint has been considered as one the most powerful bases east Hama city near Salamiyeh town, the...

When Iraq invaded Kuwait in 1990, fellow Gulf states raced to shelter thousands of displaced Kuwaitis. Fast forward 25 years, and the homeless from Syria's nearby war have found scant refuge in the Arab world's richest states. For critics of the Gulf's affluent monarchies the...

Britain will use part of its foreign aid budget to help meet the costs of accommodating refugees arriving from Syria, its finance minister said on Sunday, in a bid to head off public concerns over the impact on local services. Prime Minister David Cameron said on Friday that...

. (Reporting by Mohamed Al Hussein; Translation by Yusra Ahmed) The Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD) operating in northern Syria has dissolved one of its factions, mostly Arabs who support ruling Baath party, where the battalion commander has been tortured in public over rape issue....

Australia will accept more refugees from camps bordering Syria and Iraq and “is open” to providing more financial assistance, Prime Minister Tony Abbott said on Sunday, while adding that a "strong security response" was needed for the region. The Australian government is due to...

While the desperate flight of Syrians from their country's war was dominating news bulletins this summer, yet another diplomatic push to end the four-year-old conflict was quietly running into the sand. That largely unnoticed failure has reinforced the view amongst Syria experts...

Two policeman were killed and three others injured in predominantly Kurdish eastern Turkey's largest city when Kurdish militants clashed with security forces early on Sunday, government sources said. Gunfire and explosions echoed across the center of Diyarbakir on Sunday morning...