A Saudi young man who joined Islamic State (IS) earlier this year then defected and joined fighters in Gaza has been killed by Israeli rockets in a recent attack on the city, Al-Hayat daily reported. Sultan Farhan Rajeh Al-Harbi, a native of Hafr Al-Batin, decided to leave IS after...

TUNIS (Reuters) - A deputy in Tunisia's transitional parliament survived an assassination attempt in the city of Kasserine, near the Algerian border, where security forces have been hunting Islamist militants for months. Mohamed Ali Nasri told reporters in...

Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Alwasl)- Former chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff of the rebel Free Syrian Army, Salim Idriss, said that current Syria’s government Defence minister is without any power even before the revolution. However, there are...

(AFP)- Raids by Syrian forces hunting suspected Islamic State infiltrators in the northeast town of Hasakeh have sparked an exodus of more than 60,000 civilians in three days, a monitor said Monday. Hasakeh is split between zones controlled by President Bashar al-Assad's forces,...