Syrian state media on Thursday accused Saudi Arabia and the West of complicity with the jihadist Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant that has captured swathes of Iraqi territory. Echoing claims often made by the regime and its supporters, state media said Saudi and other allies...

(Writing by Faris al-Rifai; Translation by Yusra Ahmed) Mrs. Hiba al-Haj Ali, wife of Hosam Eddin Malas, who was sentenced in absentia for 5 years jail by the Criminal Court in Cairo, said to Zaman Alwasl: "that adjudication based on false accusation...

Militants from the extremist Islamist State of Iraq and Syria on Wednesday seized the northern Iraqi city of Tikrit, a day after the country’s second-largest city Mosul fell under their control. Their sweeping advances, and the rapid collapse of the Iraqi army - on which the...

Tens of thousands of people have fled Iraq's second biggest city Mosul after the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), an al-Qaeda splinter group, took control of the city. An estimated 1,300 ISIL fighters overran Iraqi security forces and seized the city's airport...