Russian aircraft carrying nearly 2,000 suspected troops have landed at a military airbase near the regional capital of the restive Crimean peninsula, a top Ukrainian official has said, accusing Moscow of an "armed invasion". "Thirteen Russian aircraft landed at the airport of...
Multiple sources within Syrian rebel brigades have reported that more than 70 Hezbollah militants and Syrian army personnel were recently killed in a single night operation. According to these sources, the pro-regime forces were “liquidated in their tents in surprise carnage, leaving none...
Israel warned Lebanon on Friday to prevent threatened Hezbollah retaliation for an alleged Israeli air strike on a site used by the guerrillas on the Syrian border. Israel has neither confirmed nor denied carrying out Monday's strike, in keeping with its...
Islamist militants trying to enforce their religious strict code in rebel-held areas of Syria have cut off the hand of an alleged thief in Aleppo province, jihadi social media said on Friday. Photos of the public event were posted on Twitter by several jihadi...
Turkey's main opposition party asked the top court on Friday to overturn a law tightening government control of the judiciary, which it sees as a bid by Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan to snuff out a corruption scandal. Hours after the law was enacted late on Thursday, Justice...
Armed men took control of two airports in the Crimea region on Friday in what Ukraine's government described as an invasion and occupation by Russian forces, raising tension between Moscow and the West. Russia's Black Sea fleet, which is based in the region, denied its forces were...
Fighters from an al Qaeda splinter group, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), withdrew from a rebel-held Syrian town near the border with Turkey on Friday, a monitoring group said. Months of rebel infighting in and around Azaz, 5 km (3...
Syrian regime has recruited the youth members of the governing Baath Party in a new armed militia called 'Al Baath Brigades', mainly composed of university students and operate under pro-Assad Student Union, sources said. The main mission of the newly formed brigades is...
The Syrian air force has continued the barrel bombing of Yabroud, 75 kilometers (48 miles) northwest of Damascus, amid a three-week regime offensive putting pressure on the city. The Local Coordination Committees said Tuesday that “ violent clashes and battles ” are occurring on the...
The opposition Syrian National Coalition has blamed dozens of bodies near Otaiba on the Syrian military and Hezbollah, condemning “the cowardly act of killing civilians who tried to escape the siege imposed by the Assad regime”. The Coalition statement called on the...
Talks between NATO and Russia on a possible joint mission to protect a U.S. ship that will destroy Syria's deadliest chemical weapons are moving ahead despite tensions over Ukraine , a top U.S. commander said on Thursday. U.S. Air Force General Philip Breedlove,...
An Islamic group met Wednesday to quash fatwas (religious edicts) ruling that polio vaccines cause infertility, Al Arabiya News Channel reported “The whole world rejects such fatwas that polio vaccines cause infertility,” Abbas Chouman, a senior official at Cairo’s al-Azhar University...
Turkey has reopened the Bab al-Hawa border crossing after clashes inside a refugee camp earlier this month, according to Zaman Alwasl reporter. The insurgent bloc Islamic Front had tried to move refugees to nearby camps because of Turkish objections to gunmen at the Bab al-Hawa...
The United States told Russia to demonstrate in coming days that it was sincere about its promise not to intervene in Ukraine, after armed men seized the regional parliament in a mainly ethnic Russian region and raised the Russian flag. Crimea, the only Ukrainian region with an...
A chemicals weapons attack in Syria last summer that the U.S. says killed more than 1,400 people was the world's worst human rights violation of 2013, the Obama administration concluded Thursday. The report by the State Department also foreshadowed the unrest that has gripped the...
Twelve people including two children were killed on Thursday when a gas tank exploded at a Turkish restaurant in the Qatari capital Doha, authorities in the Gulf Arab state reported. About 30 others were injured in the blast at the Istanbul Restaurant that one security source...
Syrian state television said a mortar shell landed near a hospital in a government-controlled neighborhood of the central city of Homs, killing at least five people. State TV said the mortar...
A car bomb has killed 20 people and wounded dozens in Sinjar, in eastern Idlib Province. Most of the martyrs were women who were shopping: the car was parked in a market which has a cloth bazaar every Thursday, visited by browsers from more than 30 kilometers away. EA
An al Qaeda splinter group has demanded that Christians in a Syrian city it controls pay a levy in gold and curb displays of their faith in return for protection, according to a statement posted online on Wednesday. The Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL),...
Syrian Relief Office in Jordan has been closed over lack of responsibility by National Coalition Aid Unit, former director said to Zaman Alwasl. Rima Flaihan, a prominent Syrian opposition figure, and a member of the SNC, said that a volunteer team formed in 2012 in Jordan,...
