Egypt detained a senior Hamas official at Cairo International Airport, security sources said on Tuesday, a day after it reopened the Rafah border crossing to allow Palestinians to travel in and out of the Gaza Strip. Hassan Asseify, the deputy religious affairs minister in Hamas-ruled...

  A senior commander in the al-Qaeda-linked group Nusra Front was killed  on Monday  in southern city of Daraa by unidentified gunmen, activists said. Ahmed Mohamed al-Falouji, Nusra's security official in Daraa, was assassinated by unknown group broke into a...

Commanders of Syria's key rebel group Ahrar al-Sham movement have been under fire amid a mounting number of senior fighters killed by unidentified groups. On Saturday, Abu Rateb al-Mazzawi, Ahrar al-Sham's senior commander in Eastern Ghouta suburbs, was killed in an explosive device planted...

  At least 1200 of Syrian inmates at a main prison in the city of Hama rioted on Friday in a protest against jail conditions and harsh sentences, a monitor and rights activists said on Friday. The roit came to an end, according to Zaman al-Wasl sources, after...