18/11/2015

Mehdi Hasan’s claim (We accept Russian bombs can provoke a terror backlash. Our bombs can too, 18 November) that it is “verboten in our public discourse” to point to a link between western policy and terrorist attacks is rather…

Around 200 people fleeing Syria face an uncertain future in South Korea, according to the head of the National Intelligence Service (NIS), with 65 of them not even being able to leave the airport they landed in. Although it was not…

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov vowed Wednesday that his country would exert efforts to prevent "terrorism from advancing into Lebanon." Lavrov's remarks were made ahead of a meeting with his visiting Lebanese counterpart…

The Army Intelligence arrested on Wednesday more than 20 individuals in raids on encampments and residents of Syrian refugees in the eastern city of Baalbek, the state-run National News Agency said. The army raided encampments and…

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov urged on Wednesday global powers to unite without any preconditions on the fate of Syria’s leader Bashar al-Assad after Russia and France killed 33 militants in 72 hours. “It seems to me there are no…

In the early hours of Sunday morning, at 2am, I met Ahmed.  Ahmed drives a cab, lives in London and has a young son.  As we drove, the news briefly came on the radio - he quickly turned it off.  "No more news for me,” he said. When I…

Rif Dimashq Province: Several missiles believed ground-to-ground, launched by the regime forces, landed on the city of Douma in the eastern Ghouta. The violent clashes between the regime forces and allied militiamen against…

Daraa Province: The regime forces shelled and machine-gunned places in the towns of Otman and al- Sheikh Meskin, no information about casualties. Homs Province: IS- held areas in the southeastern countryside of Homs were…

Damascus Province: The regime forces machine-gunned places in the Street 30 in al- Yarmouk camp, no information about casualties. Rif Dimashq Province: 3 children killed in the regime forces’ shelling yesterday on the…

Aleppo Province: Warplanes carried out several raids after midnight on places around IS-held town of Deir Hafer, no information about casualties. The violent clashes between the regime forces and allied militiamen against IS…