Syrian regime television said on Friday  warplanes had bombed targets near the insurgent-held town of Zabadani near the frontier with Lebanon, destroying an ammunition store and a factory for making rockets, Reuters said. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported heavy fighting...

Turkey has deployed additional troops and equipment along part of its border with Syria as fighting north of the city of Aleppo intensifies, security sources said, but Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said there were no immediate plans for any incursion. Security sources and...

A senior Israeli army officer shot and killed a Palestinian youth who was throwing stones near a checkpoint in the occupied West Bank on Friday, Palestinian and Israeli sources said. A Palestinian witness and an Israeli military spokeswoman said the Palestinian was among a group throwing stones...

Syria rejected a U.N. Human Rights Council resolution condemning its aerial bombing tactics record on Thursday, saying the use of barrel bombs was a "technical" issue that was no business of the Geneva-based body. The United States and 10 European and Arab countries backed the resolution...

(Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The number of Syrian children being forced to work keeps growing as the conflict drags on, with those as young as six reportedly working in Lebanon, two aid agencies warned on Thursday. Syrian refugee children have become the joint or sole breadwinners in almost...

Turkish police disarmed a man -- suspected of being a member  of Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, terrorist group -- carrying 14 kilograms of explosives and a firearm near a shopping center in the western city of Izmir. A police team performing a routine road check early Thursday morning...

(Reuters)-  Syrian insurgents led by Islamist groups began a major offensive to gain full control of the divided northern city of Aleppo, a monitor and rebels said on Thursday. The fall of Syria's main commercial hub would be a major blow for President Bashar al-Assad, restricting his...

The UN cultural agency on Thursday placed two ancient cities in conflict-torn Yemen, Sanaa and Shibam, on its list of endangered World Heritage sites. UNESCO said Sanaa, known for its many Islamic sites and multi-story rammed earth houses, "sustained serious damage due to armed conflict"...

ISIS militants are looting ancient sites across Iraq and Syria on an industrial scale and selling on treasures to middlemen to raise cash, Irina Bokova, the head of the U.N. cultural agency UNESCO said Thursday. One fifth of Iraq's about 10,000 official world-renowned sites were under ISIS...

(Translation by Yusra Ahmed) Zaman al-Wasl has occupied a special rank among Syrian digital media outlets as rates, figures and followers on social media reflect a remarkable role has been played by the ten-year-old newspaper. A role that took shape by the beginning of the Syrian revolution in...

Tunisian authorities have arrested 12 people they suspect are linked to the Sousse beach hotel attack on foreign tourists, and are hunting for two men who trained in a Libyan jihadist camp with the Sousse attacker, an official said. Thirty-eight foreigners, most British...

Cut off from Yemen and its allies there by a Saudi-led military campaign, Iran has intensified a media counter-offensive against Riyadh, accusing its regional rival of inflicting catastrophic suffering while presenting itself as a blameless peacemaker. Iranian state media have given blanket...

Syria's main Kurdish party warned Turkey on Wednesday that any military intervention would threaten international peace and said the country's main Kurdish militia is ready to face any "aggression." Meanwhile, a Syrian rebel group released a video showing 18 Islamic State militants being shot...

Syrian regime air forces extended its fierce aerial campaign on the southern province of Daraa, killing dozens of people, a move came to put down rebels' effort to take full control of the strategic region near Jordan. On Wednesday, more than 30 people, including women and children, killed in...

 The Syrian rebel Islam Army faction on Wednesday released a video showing the shooting deaths of 18 Islamic State militants whom they had been holding. The IS fighters came from Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and other countries. The Islam Army video came a week after IS released a video showing...

 The World Food Program (WFP) is to slash its aid to Syrian refugees due to a lack of funding, the UN agency announced on Wednesday. This month the agency will halve the value of food vouchers given to refugees in Lebanon to $13.50 per person per month. Furthermore, the WFP said in a...

At least 19 people, including 7 women, have been killed in southern province of Daraa, activists said Wednesday as regime air force extends its aerial campaign on southern region of the war-torn country. Activists and monitoring groups said 12 people had been killed and dozens wounded in...

 Justice and Development (AK) Party deputy  Ismet Yilmaz was elected Turkey's newparliamentary speaker on Wednesday. Yilmaz, a defense minister in the previous AK Party government, received 258 votes in the fourth and final round of two-days’ voting among the Grand National Assembly’s...

 Egyptian security forces stormed an apartment in the western Cairo suburb of '6th of October' and killed nine men whom they said were armed, security sources said. The sources said authorities had received information the group was planning to carry out an attack. Among those dead was...

The United States and its allies conducted 17 air strikes against ISIS forces in Syria and Iraq Tuesday in the latest round of daily attacks on the militant group, the joint task force overseeing the air strikes said. There were five air strikes using attack, bomber and fighter aircraft in...