Jihadists stormed the Turkish consulate in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul on Wednesday and kidnapped 48 people including the head of the diplomatic mission, a Turkish government official said. "48 Turks including the consul, staff members, guards and three children were...

(Zaman Alwasl)- Outrage has been sparked amid Syrian opposition after an official congratulation letter to Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi on his inauguration as president of Egypt by the opposition National Coalition. Several Coalition members...

Saudi Arabia and Russia discussed Monday prospects of reaching a diplomatic solution to the three-year-old Syrian crisis that has claimed the lives of more than 100,000 and left millions of Syrians homeless. "Foreign Minister Prince Saud Al-Faisal and his Russian counterpart Sergei...

(Zaman Alwasl)- The Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) declared, in statement issued Tuesday, readiness to fight with Iraqi Army and Peshmerga against Al-Qaeda renegade group in northern Iraq. The armed wing of the Democratic Union Party in...