Fatah Army on Friday has thwarted an attack launched by Syrian forces on Idlib to recapture the city that fell out three weeks ago. Bashar al-Assad's forces pressed slow advances northwest of Idlib by taking control of Nahliya and Kafr Najed villages near Ariha city in an effort to...

 Iran proposed a four-point peace plan forYemen on Friday that calls for an immediate cease-fire and the formation of a unity government. In a letter sent to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, Iran's FM Javad Zarif urged the New York-based body "to get more effectively involved in...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Pro-Islam Army activists said Friday the the key rebel group in Eastern Ghouta has 'cleansed' three neighborhoods of Damascus from Islamic State loyalists after a major attack . On Thursday, Islam Amry launched an attack on Islamic State bases in Barzeh, Tishreen and...

New rules in Lebanon, which has the highest per capita concentration of refugees in the world, have left many thousands of them at risk of abuse from landlords and detention at any time, aid workers and a rights group say. Four years of civil war across the border in  Syria...