The White House said on Monday the a video posted on the Internet over the weekend of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the reclusive leader of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) is still being reviewed by the intelligence and cannot yet determine its authenticity. “We have not,...

(Translation by Yusra Ahmed) (Zaman Alwasl)-A source from inside the Democratic Bloc in the National Coalition, that Ahmad Jarba belongs to, described the bloc position as “critical” and things have become quite “chaotic” The...

(Reuters) - A Saudi court on Monday sentenced four people to jail terms for trying to go to Iraq to join fighting there and for supporting al Qaeda's operations abroad, state news agency SPA said. The four, one of whom was sentenced in absentia, were given prison sentences of two...

GAZA/JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel launched an offensive against Islamist Hamas in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, bombing some 50 targets, including homes, in a campaign meant to end Palestinian rocket fire into the Jewish state. The Israeli military urged Israelis within a 40-km...