US President Donald Trump's emphatic embrace of Sunni Arab regimes and his vilification of Iran mark a stark departure from the vision of his predecessor Barack Obama in the volatile region, analysts say. Pointedly delivering his first foreign speech in Riyadh on Sunday, Trump praised the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)-  US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces on Tuesday took two villages from the Islamic State in Raqqa province, tightening "their noose" on the radical group in an advance to isolate its base of operations, local activists said. The Kurdish-led alliance has imposed...

A car bomb exploded in Homs on Tuesday morning, Syrian state television said, two days after the city went back under full government control for the first time since 2011. Authorities destroyed another vehicle rigged with explosives near a Shi'ite Muslim shrine south of Damascus, the...

At least 10 Afghan soldiers were killed when militants attacked their army base in the southern province of Kandahar, the defense ministry said Tuesday, in the latest attack on Western-backed forces. The assault in Shah Wali Kot district late Monday came just a day after 20 Afghan policemen...