The Syrian government of President Bashar al-Assad has received substantial imports of Iraqi crude oil from an Egyptian port in the last nine months, shipping and payments documents show, part of an under-the-radar trade that has kept his military running despite Western sanctions....

A powerful car bomb explosion has rocked a police headquarters in an Egyptian city north of Cairo, killing at least 14 people and injuring 120, officials said. The interim government accused the Muslim Brotherhood of orchestrating the attack, branding it a "terrorist...

Rebels Joint Chiefs of Staff is in talks with the Islamic Front in order to unite efforts on the ground to confront Assad regime, Chiefs representative in the National Coalition told Zaman Alwasl. Louay al-Miqdad says that ‘Joint Chiefs’ is looking for a common...

   A video showed the reunion of two siblings after the Syrian regime heavily shelled Hayan, a town in the northwestern province of Aleppo. In the video, a child begs for help to save his sister trapped under rubble. As a man pulls her free, the boy is heard...