In desperate efforts to gain ground on battlefields, frustrated governments in the Mideast and Africa are using barrel bombs against their enemies, launching the cheap, quickly manufactured weapons as a crude counter to roadside blasts and suicide explosions that insurgents have...

(Zaman Alwasl)- The Islamic Front, Syria’s main rebel group, has merged its factions in Aleppo in four sectors in order to unify efforts in war-torn province, rebel sources said. This step aimed to have the same formation of regular armies,...

(Reuters) - An Egyptian court sentenced 10 supporters of the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood to death in absentia on Saturday but postponed sentencing of its leader and other senior members tried in the case, judicial sources said. Those sentenced were convicted on charges...

Hundreds of Syrians have been released from government prisons after an amnesty granted by President Bashar al-Assad to mark his re-election this week, a monitoring group said Friday. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said 320 prisoners were released from northern Aleppo...