At least 30 Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant militants and four Iraqi Peshmerga fighters were killed in clashes in northern Iraq Saturday, a Peshmerga source said. All the casualties took place in Kuwair village located 40 miles (65 kilometers) south of Erbil city....

Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- The tragedy of people under siege in southern Damascus is getting worse with Syria's harsh winter and cold weather, with closing the only crossing point to area, the situation reached to unprecedented levels of difficulty....

Reporting by Abdullah Al Ghadawi; Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- Nofal al-Dawalibi, the spokesman of the National Unity Movement to Liberate Syria, reveals to Zaman al-Wasl that his party “the Liberated Nationalists Party”, has ceased the Transitional Revolutionary...

(Reuters) - The radical London cleric Abu Hamza al-Masri was sentenced to life in a U.S. prison on Friday for his conviction on terrorism-related charges, including his role in the 1998 kidnapping of Western tourists in  Yemen  that left four hostages dead. U.S. District Judge...