Middle East
Suspected chemical attack kills dozens in Syria
A suspected Syrian government chemical attack killed scores of people, including children, in the northwestern province of Idlib on Tuesday, a monitoring ...Regime strikes kill 22 civilians near Damascus
Air strikes by Syrian warplanes on a rebel-held region near Damascus killed at least 22 civilians on Monday, the Syrian Observatory for ...U.S.-backed forces repel Islamic State attack near Syrian dam
U.S. backed Syrian forces repelled a major counter-attack by Islamic State militants holding out at the country\'s largest dam and in the ...Drone strikes kill 5 Qaeda suspects in Yemen
Drone strikes killed five suspected Al-Qaeda militants in southern Yemen on Wednesday, a security official said, as the US intensifies air raids ...U.S.-allied Kurd militia says struck Syria base deal with Russia
The Syrian Kurdish YPG militia said Russia was setting up a military base in northwestern Syria under a bilateral agreement and will ...Israel intercepts missile fired at its air force in Syria
The Israeli military said it shot down one of numerous anti-aircraft missiles launched on Friday at its air force which was operating ...More than 40 refugees dead in attack on boat off Yemen
More than 40 people including women and children have been shot dead aboard a boat carrying Somali refugees in the Red Sea ...Syrian war monitor says 465,000 killed in six years of fighting
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britain-based war monitor, said on Monday there are so far about 465,000 people killed and ...Syria air force bombed convoy, U.N. says in Aleppo probe
Syrian government aircraft deliberately bombed and strafed a humanitarian convoy, killing 14 aid workers and halting relief operations, U.N. investigators said on ...Israel aircraft attack Hamas targets after rocket fired from Gaza
Israeli aircraft carried out a series of strikes in Gaza on Monday, wounding two people, health officials and witnesses said, after a ...




