Damascus, June 27 (IANS) Syrian troops and armed rebels in a central Syrian district have agreed on a truce during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, media reported Friday. The truce in al-Waer district, the last remaining rebel-held area inside the city of Homs, has gone into...

What should Washington do in Iraq? Secretary of State John Kerry is touring the region to figure that out. In Jeddah, he is expected to discuss the situation with the Saudi leadership. He will probably face the same response that General David Petraeus got from King Abdullah in 2008...

  Russia's U.N. ambassador said Thursday there is a real prospect of a terrorist state springing up from Syria's second-largest city Aleppo to Iraq's capital Baghdad. Vitaly Churkin pointed to the rapid advance of al-Qaeda-inspired terrorists from...

(Zaman Alwasl)- Main rebel group in Syria’s Eastern Ghouta warned in statement issued Tuesday of the Islamic State of Iraq and Greater Syria (ISIS). The Islamic Union of Levant Soldiers (dubbed: Ajnad al-Sham) urged all Islamist rebel factions in...