(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syria's Republican Guards forces and notorious Fourth Armored Division have intensified siege on Moadamiyet al-Sham town west of Damascus as rebels refuse to surrender or to evacuate the town in similar scenario to fellow fighters in Homs and Zabadani. Bashar al-Assad's forces...

Two people were arrested in Belgium on Sunday and Monday, both suspected of plotting an attack in Brussels on New Year's Eve, federal prosecutors said. Police found military clothing and Islamic State propaganda material but no weapons or explosives, prosecutors said on Tuesday....

(Zaman Al Wasl)-  Late Syrian journalist and film maker Naji al Jerf who has been assassinated Sunday in the Turkish border city of Gaziantep with a silencer-equipped pistol was not a bitter enemy for ISIS, but also for the Syrian security services. According to the intelligence archive...

Boko Haram Islamic extremists struck the northeastern Nigerian city of Maiduguri for the first time in months Monday with rocket-propelled grenades and multiple suicide bombers, witnesses said. At least 50 people were killed and the death toll could go higher. At least 30 were killed and more...