Middle East
Blasts shake Damascus as US and allies launch Syria strikes
The United States, Britain and France carried out a wave of pre-dawn strikes against Syria\'s regime Saturday in response to a suspected ...WHO: 500 Syrian patients show symptoms pointing to toxic weapons exposure
The World Health Organization said on Wednesday around 500 people had been treated for "signs and symptoms consistent with exposure to toxic ...International experts to inspect attack site in Syria as U.S. ponders response
International chemical weapons experts will go to the Syrian town of Douma to investigate a suspected poison gas attack, their organization said ...Suspected toxic attack in Syria prompts outrage
A suspected chemical attack in Syria\'s Eastern Ghouta sparked international outrage Sunday, as state media reported that the last rebel holdouts in ...Israelis on Gaza border unmoved by Palestinian protests
Hardened by years of rocket attacks from next-door Gaza, residents of this frontline Israeli village seemed unmoved on Sunday by Palestinians\' mass ...Russia, Iran and Turkey struggle to find common ground on Syria
Three foreign powers who have shaped Syria\'s civil war - Iran, Russia and Turkey - will discuss ways to wind down the ...Gazans pitch protest tents on Israel border as tensions mount
Palestinians in Gaza pitched tents near the volatile border with Israel on Thursday ahead of a six-week protest camp under the gaze ...US-backed Syria force to redeploy 1,700 from IS fight to Afrin
A US-backed alliance of Syrian fighters announced on Tuesday it would redeploy around 1,700 members from front lines against the Islamic State ...Syria regime retakes quarter of rebel enclave as civilians flee
Syria\'s regime seized control of over a quarter of rebel-held Eastern Ghouta on the edge of Damascus after two weeks of devastating ...Iraq court sentences 16 Turkish women to death for joining IS
An Iraqi court has sentenced 16 Turkish women to death by hanging for joining Islamic State, a judiciary spokesman said on Sunday.




