(Reporting by Sarah Abdul Hai; Translation by Dani Murad) Local sources informed Zaman Alwasl that 325 students left the city of Jaramana, early Friday heading to their hometowns in Eastern Ghouta, after they completed high school exams in all of...

By Kamal Namaa ANBAR, IRAQ(Reuters) - Sunni fighters have seized a border post on the Iraq-Syria frontier, security sources said, smashing a line drawn by colonial powers a century ago in a campaign to create an Islamic Caliphate from the Mediterranean Sea to Iran. The...

The security vacuum in the Middle East that has allowed an extremist group to advance through regions of Iraq and Syria would have opened up regardless of whether the United States had decided last year to back moderate rebel forces in war-torn Syria, President Obama said during...

  BEIRUT (AP) — The Syrian army has carried out a series of airstrikes against a town in eastern Syria that was captured by fighters from an al-Qaida breakaway group a day earlier, killing 16 people, activists said Saturday. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human...