(Translation by Yusra Ahmed) Wide protests started on Saturday in Yarmouk Camp for Palestinian refugees in Southern Damascus, condemning the living condition and hunger they suffer from, especially after the cease of aid from the international relief organization especially United nations...

Islamic State fighters on Sunday have seized control of a border  town with Turkey in northern countryside of Aleppo, an advance may hinder Turkish efforts set up its planned buffer zone. The new capture of Om Hosh town, 15 km (10 miles) west of the Turkish border, has followed a fierce...

Two rebel fighters were killed and three wounded on Sunday in regime air strike on Daraya, a poor Sunni community on the south-west outskirts of the capital, activists said. Rebels who announced 'Lahib Daraya' battle have made gains in the northern neighborhood of the town. In retaliation...

Eight U.S. military aircraft plus 300 accompanying personnel have arrived at Turkey's Incirlik Air Base, official sources said on Sunday. According to a report in Stars and Stripes, a U.S. military publication, the eight aircraft included six F-16 fighter jets, plus hundreds of...

Iraq’s Council of Ministers on Sunday approved a package of reforms proposed by Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi ostensibly aimed at improving public services and rooting out widespread corruption. The move comes following two weeks of countrywide demonstrations to protest...

Turkish security sources are claiming to have killed a total of 390 militants from the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) in a series of recent air strikes against rebel targets in northern Iraq. An anonymous security force source also told Anadolu Agency that 400 PKK insurgents were injured...

 Mohamed Morsi, Egypt’s ousted and imprisoned president, hinted on Saturday that he had been subject to a poisoning attempt by prison officials. During court proceedings, Morsi -- democratically elected in mid-2012 only to be ousted by the army one year later -- cryptically said he had...

  The Fatah Army launched an attack Saturday on the last two Shiite villages under regime control in northwest Idlib province, rebel source and activists said. The alliance of Islamist groups, which includes Al-Qaeda branch the Nusra Front, carried out a new attack on the villages of Foa'...

Fighters backed by an Arab military coalition seized the key city of Zinjibar in southern Yemen on Saturday, residents and militia sources said, dealing another major blow to the dominant Houthi group. The capital city of Abyan province on the Arabian Sea had been a major focus...

The U.S.-led coalition conducted 19 airstrikes on ISIS targets in Syria and Iraq Friday, the Command Joint Task Force said Saturday. The greatest concentration of attacks was near the Syrian city of Hassakeh, where nine fighting positions, three bunkers, a weapons cache and other targets were...

Syrian regime air force had dropped 2041 barrel bombs on rebel-held areas across Syria last July, leaving 368 people dead, including 83 children and 63 women, the Syrian Network for Human Rights said in a new report. The Syrian military has been dropping barrel bombs -- crude weapons stuffed...

At least 27 people were killed on Saturday when Syrian regime forces shelled a local market in rebel-held town in Idlib province, medics told Zaman al-Wasl. Saturday’s barrel bombs barrages hit the crowded sheep market in Senjar town, leaving dozens killed and wounded, . Two women and a child...

International diplomacy efforts to find a political solution in Syria have yet to bear fruit as the civil war in the country entered its fifth year in March 2015. In an attempt to find common ground with other countries pursuing contrary policies, and as one of the leading actors in this...

Saad Dawabsheh, the father of a Palestinian baby burned to death in an arson attack by Jewish extremists in the West Bank, has died of injuries sustained in the incident. The dead man’s brother, Nasr Dawabsheh, told Anadolu Agency by phone that Saad died after eight days in Soroka Medical...

The U.N. Security Council unanimously passed a U.S.-drafted resolution on Friday laying the groundwork for an inquiry that would assign blame for chemical weapons attacks in Syria's civil war. The resolution asks United Nations chief Ban Ki-moon and the head of the Organization for the...

A prominent U.S. think tank on Friday questioned Iran's explanation for activity at its Parchin military site visible in satellite imagery, saying the movement of vehicles did not appear related to road work. The U.S.-based Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS) said...

 A cousin of Syria's President Bashar al-Assad has shot dead a senior air force officer in a road rage incident in the Latakia coastal heartland of their minority Alawite community, a monitor said Friday. Suleiman al-Assad, a first cousin once removed, killed Colonel Hassan...

(By Soufyan Jbawi; Translation by Yusra Ahmed) Abo Ahmed and his children patiently wait for the time to become 8:00pm, because it is the time for the electricity to get connected to their house in Yarmouk refugee camp in Damascus. Abo Ahmed then rushes to everything needs charging and...

The first visit of a top Syrian official to a Gulf Arab state in more than four years is the strongest sign yet of a new diplomatic push to end the Syrian war, but there are still huge hurdles to face before any peace process can begin. Diplomacy has so far been a total failure...

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras asked Europe to help in handling tens of thousands of refugees coming in from Syria, Afghanistan and other war zones, saying on Friday his cash-strapped country could not deal with them alone. The influx has piled pressure on Greece's services...