( The New Arab )- At least nine Yazidi women and children were rescued from Islamic State captivity in Syria's Raqqa, Kurdish officials said on Sunday. “At around 10:30 on Saturday night, five Yazidi children and four women were rescued,” said Hussein Qaedi from the Duhok-based KRG...

Egypt's President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi ordered military troops be deployed across the country on Sunday, his office said in a statement, after 43 people were killed in bomb attacks on two churches. "President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi the Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces has ordered units...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime forces bombed north eastern Damascus district with two toxic gas bombs last Friday, hours after U.S. cruise missile strikes on Shayrat airfield in central Syria, monitor group said Sunday. The Syrian Network for Human Rights said two rebel fighters in...

Pope Francis condemned a deadly blast at a church in Egypt and said at a Palm Sunday Mass that the world was suffering from wars, terrorism and "interests that are armed and ready to strike". Francis, who has not made any direct public comment on the current Middle East crisis, said the Mass...