ALEPPO- Syrian government helicopters dropped barrel bombs on opposition-held districts of the northern city of Aleppo on Monday, killing at least 31 people including several children, an NGO said....

WASHINGTON, Jean-Louis Santini- Astrophysicists are casting doubt on what just recently was deemed a breakthrough in confirming how the universe was born: the observation of gravitational waves that...

DAMASCUS- A bomb attack targeting a weapons bazaar in eastern Syria near the Iraqi border killed 30 "terrorists" on Saturday, state television reported. "A big explosion hit a terrorist arms market...

BERLIN- Germany will accept 10,000 more refugees from war-ravaged Syria, officials said Thursday, even as Berlin faced calls from rights groups to do more. Interior ministers at both federal and...

WASHINGTON- Dinosaurs weren't cold-blooded -- like modern-day reptiles -- nor were they warm-blooded -- like mammals and birds, according to a study out Friday aiming to answer a question that has...

LOS ANGELES- Jazz singer Jimmy Scott -- famed for his unusually high soprano voice caused by a rare genetic condition -- has died, US media reported Friday. He was 88. Scott died in his sleep...

DAMASCUS- At least seven people were killed when a car bomb exploded in the central Syrian city of Homs Thursday, Syrian state media reported. "Seven killed and others injured according to a first...

BEIRUT- The jailed daughter of a prominent Syrian prisoner of conscience was released Wednesday under a general amnesty announced two days earlier, a human rights lawyer told AFP. Tens of thousands...

BENGHAZI- A car bomb exploded at a police station in Libya's second city Benghazi late Wednesday, leaving the suicide bomber dead and five police officers injured, security officials said. "A suicide...