The State of Iraq and The Levant (ISIL) has made gains against its rival Al Nusra Front and other Islamist groups in Raqqa, activists reported.  The ISIL regained control of Al-Qatar and Al-Hazimeh streets in Al-Raqqa city after fierce clashes with Ahrar...

  Former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has died, Israeli Army Radio said, quoting a relative of his family. He was 85 years old and had been in a coma since 2006 when a stroke incapacitated him at the height of his political power. "Ariel Sharon has passed away," said...

Syrian air force Intelligence raided Red Crescent warehouses in Damascus suburb of Jarmana which contain aid for 24,000 displaced families, according to Zaman Alwasl reporter. The powerful security branch has informed the NGO principals in Jaramana that ‘’as of today...

  The wife of a Palestinian prisoner in an Israeli jail gave birth on Friday to a boy born from sperm smuggled into Gaza, her family said, the first successful pregnancy of its kind in the embattled coastal enclave. The procedure follows several similar cases last year in...