Deaths As Car Bomb Hits Jableh Town
At least nine people are reported killed and 25 others wounded in a car bomb attack on Syrian government-held coastal town of Jableh, state media reported. Thursday's attack in the Latakia province...
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Clashes Reported Despite Truce
Fighting between government and rebel forces has been reported in parts of Syria despite a nationwide truce coming into force overnight. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a UK-based monitoring...
Taliban ‘kill Woman Who Divorced Husband and Remarried’
Taliban militants in Afghanistan have shot dead a woman who divorced her husband and remarried, officials say. The killing took place in north-western Badghis province. There are some reports that...
Rebels Burn Syria Evacuation Buses
Several buses sent to transport the sick and injured from two government-held villages in Syria’s Idlib province have been burned by rebels. It has thrown the latest efforts to evacuate besieged...
Rebels Burn Syria Evacuation Buses
Several buses en route to transport the sick and injured from two government-held villages in Syria’s Idlib province have been burned by rebels. It has thrown the latest efforts to evacuate...
Afghan Taliban Hang University Student In Public
Since their ouster in 2001, Taliban have executed people they accuse of spying for foreign forces Taliban fighters publicly hanged a university student after accusing him of killing a senior...
World Should Stop Turning A Blind Eye To Syria
France has accused Syria and its allies of using political uncertainty in the US to launch "total war" against opposition-held areas in the country and called for new sanctions on Bashar al-Assad's...
German Police Arrest Five In Raid On ‘IS Network’
Five people linked to the so-called Islamic State (IS) group have been arrested in co-ordinated raids in Germany, including a senior Islamist figure, reports say. Flats were raided in northern and...
Gunmen Kill Four At Shi’ite Muslim Gathering In Karachi
Gunmen on motorcycles killed at least four people at a religious gathering of Shi'ite Muslims in Karachi, Pakistan's largest city, on Saturday, police said, in the latest attack claimed by the Sunni...
Former Qaeda In Syria Confirms A Leader Killed In Raid
A jihadist group that was formerly Al-Qaeda's affiliate in Syria has confirmed that an air strike killed a senior leader after the Pentagon said it had targeted him. Ahmed Salama Mabrouk, an Egyptian...
Russia ‘driving Syria Rebels To Jihadists’
Russia's increasing military action in Syria is forcing moderate elements within the Syrian opposition into the hands of extremists, a US state department spokesman has said. Mark Toner said renewed...
US ‘protecting Syria Jihadist Group’
The US is trying to spare a Syrian jihadist group in case it is needed to unseat President Assad, the Russian foreign minister has told the BBC. Sergei Lavrov said the US had broken its promise to...
Hopes Fade For Truce As Violence Flares
A week-old truce in Syria brokered by the US and Russia appears close to unravelling, with alleged violations by government and rebel forces mounting. A US-backed rebel group in the divided northern...
Syria Conflict: US Air Attack Endangers Truce
A US-led air attack in eastern Syria that killed dozens of government troops fighting so-called Islamic State has endangered an already shaky ceasefire deal, Russia says. The attack put "a very big...
‘US Strikes’ Kill Dozens of Syrian Troops
US-led coalition air strikes have killed at least 62 Syrian troops fighting so-called Islamic State in the east, the Russian military says. Aircraft flew in from Iraq and bombed Syrian troops near...
Syria Cease-Fire Faces Deep Skepticism On All Sides
The Syrian cease-fire agreed to last week by Russia and the United States has reduced violence in the short term, but there are troubling signs it may collapse like previous attempts to end the war,...
Three More Women Under Investigation
French prosecutors have placed three young women under formal investigation over a foiled attack near Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris. Ines Madani, 19, Sara Hervouet, 23, and Amel Sakaou, 39, were...
Turkey ‘has Duty’ To Defeat IS In Syria
Turkey has a duty to defeat the so-called Islamic State (IS) in neighbouring Syria; President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said. He called it a "binding duty", to ensure the militants were "unable to...
At Least 45 Killed In Syria After US-Russia Agreement
A day of intense airstrikes Saturday on and around the northern city of Aleppo killed at least 45 people, according to opposition activists. The Aleppo Media Center, an activist collective, said 45...
A Look At Details of US-Russia Deal On Syria
A look at some of the key points in an "arrangement" announced by U. S. Secretary of State John Kerry and his Russian counterpart, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, aimed at halting fighting in Syria...