ALEPPO- Syrian regime forces dumped barrel bombs Monday on a rebel-held area of Aleppo killing 10 civilians, including a family of four, a monitoring group said. An AFP correspondent who later toured...
BAGHDAD, Salam Faraj- Iraq moved closer to ending Nuri al-Maliki's stubborn grip on power Monday when his own political clan spurned him for another prime minister called to save the country from...
UNITED NATIONS- UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon Sunday welcomed the news of a fresh 72-hour ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, urging the two sides to work towards a longer-term truce. The latest...
BEIRUT- Syrian regime air raids killed 12 people on Sunday and wounded 23, including a mother and a baby boy removed from her womb, according to a monitoring group and amateur video. The video,...
ALEPPO- At least 16 civilians were killed in violence in Syria's second city of Aleppo on Saturday, residents and a monitoring group said. Residents found children 'torn apart' after a regime...
MUMBAI, Rachel O'Brien- An Indian fashion shoot sparked outrage and calls for legal action Wednesday for showing a woman being assaulted on a bus, echoing a fatal gang-rape that shocked the nation....
ARBIL, Abdelhamid Zebari- US President Barack Obama vowed Saturday to help rescue thousands of civilians besieged by jihadists on an Iraqi mountain, as an MP warned they would not survive much...
GAZA CITY, Sakher Abu El Oun- Israeli warplanes Friday pounded targets across Gaza, killing at least five Palestinians, and militants fired dozens of rockets into Israel after attempts to extend a...
KIRKUK- A reporter working with Kurdish news agency Firat was killed Friday when jihadist fighters attacked a camp in Iraq, one of her employers said on their website. Deniz Firat was hit in the...
BEIRUT- At least 27 Syrian regime forces have been killed in a jihadist assault on a military base in the northern province of Raqa, a monitoring group said on Thursday. The Syrian Observatory for...