A series of bomb attacks on Wednesday targeted areas within the Iraqi capital of Baghdad and a village near the northern town of Baquba killing at least 52 people and injuring dozens more, police and hospital sources said, according to Agence France-Presse. In...

Kuwait's emir pledged on Wednesday $500 million for Syrians stricken by almost three years of civil war. Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmed al-Sabah made the pledge at an international donor conference in Kuwait city attended by U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. Delegates...

Syrian rebels have made gains in Jarabulus city, north Aleppo, against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), local sources told Zaman Alwasl. Jarabulus, the city which lies on the western bank of the Euphrates river, has been freed from the ISIL control except...

A memorial service was held in a Sydney mosque on Monday for Muslim woman Amira Karroum, and her husband Yusuf Ali who were killed in Syria last week. Amira Karroum, 22, had left her Sydney home in December, telling her family she was headed to Denmark to holiday with...