Syria's government delegation at peace talks in Geneva presented a declaration of principles for negotiations which did not mention a transition of power and was immediately rejected by the opposition, Syrian television said on Monday. The "declaration of basic principles" said...

     Jaish al-Mujahideen fighters have arrested early today the commander (Emir) of the State of Iraq and The Levant in Kafr Hamra town in the western countryside of Aleppo, sources told Zaman Alwasl. Local activists assured that Ahmed Jamal Naief...

Mujahideen of Jaish al Muhajireen wal Ansar (JMA) have stormed regime forces in Ma’arat al-Artiq, west of Kafr Hamra and east of Babis, 82 km near Aleppo, Jihadist group, The Victorious Party In the Land of Ash-Sham, said in a statement posted online. Meanwhile, a faction...

Tunisia's national assembly approved the country's new constitution on Sunday in one of the last steps to establishing full democracy three years after the uprising that toppled autocrat Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali. Just before the constitution vote, Prime Minister Mehdi Jomaa...