Pakistani teenage activist shot last year by Taliban is awarded EU prize for fighting for girls' rights to education. Pakistan's teenage activist Malala Yousafzai, shot by the Taliban for fighting for girls' rights to education, was awarded the European Parliament's...

An exiled Iranian opposition group said on Thursday it had information about what it said was a center for nuclear weaponisation research in Tehran that the government was moving to avoid detection ahead of negotiations with world powers. The dissident National Council of Resistance...

  Libyan Prime Minister Ali Zeidan has been freed by former rebels who seized him from a hotel earlier on Thursday, the state news agency reported.  Zeidan was seized by former rebels and was held at the ministry’s anti-crime department, according to Reuters. The...

Al-Qaeda linked-groups with FSA rebels are very close to retake   a strategic town in northern Syria,  field sources told Zaman Alwasl.   The Islamic State in Iraq and and al-Sham  and Jabhat al-Nusrah have cut off Assad forces' only supply route out of...