A rising number of radicalized young Muslims with Western passports are traveling to  Syria  to fight with the rebels against the government of Bashar al-Assad, raising fears among American and European intelligence officials of a new terrorist threat when the fighters return...

Dozens of Mohamed Morsi's supporters were killed Saturday in Egypt's capital as violence erupted at mass rallies for and against the ousted Islamist president, medics and the Muslim Brotherhood said. The bloodshed came hours after the military-backed interior minister, Mohammed Ibrahim,...

The head of Syria’s opposition told U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Thursday the country’s situation was “desperate” and called for the United States to arm the rebels quickly and to push harder for a political settlement. The United Nations says more than 100,000 people have been...

Tunisian opposition member Mohamed Brahmi was shot dead in the capital Tunis on Thursday, a political source and local radio said. Brahmi was a member of the nationalist and secular Popular Party. Around six months ago the assassination of another secular politician, Chokri Belaid, led...

  Kurds from Turkey, Iran, Iraq and Syria have agreed to convene a pan-Kurdish congress to tackle historical divisions and position themselves to take full advantage of regional upheaval, according to Reuters. Often described as the world's largest ethnic group without a state of their...

Rachid Wahbi came to Syria from a Spanish slum, rushing toward death. And he didn’t plan to die alone. Facing a camera hours before the end, the bearded, 33-year-old cabdriver wore a black headdress and a black flak vest and held an AK-47 rifle. He spoke in hesitant classical...

National Alliance for the Defense of Legitimacy confirmed that 34 marches would be organized in Cairo and Giza on Friday   The National Alliance for the Defense of Legitimacy on Wednesday dismissed army chief and Defense Minister Abdel-Fatah al-Sisi’s call for mass...

Damascus countryside has been suffering from a severe siege for more than two months, resulted in difficulties to supply food, and it reached to an extent to consider getting bread into besieged areas a crime as weapons and arms trade, and do not forget the difficulty in providing medicines....

  An exchange agent in Damascus told “Eqtsad” that amounts of American dollars had been trading in the black market with an Iranian seal. The dollars stamped with phrase “Ya Zahra’a”, one of sacred Shiite's slogans that glorify al-Zahra’a, the daughter of the Prophet...

  The European Union forged a political agreement on Monday to list the military wing of Hezbollah as a terrorist organization, a European diplomat told CNN. The Iranian-backed Lebanese Shiite group, which is a strong force in Lebanese politics, already is regarded as a...

  The EU will declare  Hizbollah’s military wing  a terrorist group, marking a shift in the bloc’s dealings with the Lebanese Shia militant group brought about by its believed involvement in a deadly attack on European soil. EU foreign ministers took the unanimous...

 Cairo will "re-examine" diplomatic ties with Syria that were severed last month under ousted president Mohamed Morsi, Egypt's foreign minister, Nabil Fahmy, said on Saturday. "Everything will be re-examined," Fahmy said of the decision to sever ties with Syria. "It doesn't mean they...

 On July 8, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon called for a Ramadan ceasefire in Syria. Shorty after, both Iran and Turkey called for a stop to fighting for the month-long Muslim holiday. Neither the opposition or Syrian regime observed the calls. There have been numerous high-profile...

The peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians will be resumed, that what Mr. Kerry and the Arab League members announced after their latest meetings in Amman, Jordan on Wednesday. Mr. Kerry said to the reporters in the press conference that here had been "very significant"...

Kurdish fighters have expelled jihadists from the Syrian flashpoint frontier town of Ras al-Ain near Turkey, a watchdog said Wednesday, adding that only the border crossing remains under the extremists' control, according to AFP.   Kurdish fighters "have taken near-total control of...

Pakistani Taliban commanders Tuesday rejected suggestions they were sending fighters to Syria, saying some have gone there independently but the movement's focus remained in Pakistan, according to AFP. They said some militants, mainly Arabs and Central Asians, had gone to fight the forces of...

I raq's foreign minister has told a pan-Arab newspaper that his country is unable to stop neighboring Iran from sending weapons to Syria through its airspace.  The London-based "Asharq al-Awsat" daily quoted Hoshyar Zebari as saying: "We reject and condemn the transfer of weapons...

Political infighting threatened to stall Egypt's transition plans on Thursday, as the military cracked down on Muslim Brotherhood leaders it blames for inciting a clash in Cairo in which troops shot and killed 53 protesters. Monday's violence between supporters of ousted President...

Hezbollah operatives fired in the air to disperse people who attacked the interior minister with stones after he inspected the scene of the blast  which rocked a stronghold of the Shia militant Hezbollah group south of the Lebanese capital Beirut on Tuesday,  trapping him...

  Syria's pound -lira- has continued to slide down against the dollar after few 225% of its value in the black market since the outbreak of Syrian revolution against the Assad regime March 2011. The hysteric increase relied on many reason, the newest one is lack of Dollar...