(Reuters) - Islamic State released 19 Assyrian Christian captives in  Syria  on Sunday after processing them through a sharia court, a monitoring group which tracks the conflict said. More than 200 Assyrians remain in Islamic State hands, said the British-based Syrian...

(Reuters) - One of the main western-backed rebel groups announced on Sunday that it had dissolved itself and joined a larger Islamist alliance, weeks into a battle which saw it lose ground and men to more powerful al Qaeda insurgents. Hazzm is one of the last remnants of non-jihadist...

Yemeni President Abd Rabbuh Mansour  Hadi  said Sunday that capital Sanaa is "occupied" by the Shiite Houthi movement, describing the recent Houthi takeover of government as a "coup." Hadi's statements came during a speech he gave in the southern city of Aden, where he met tribal...

Palestinian movement  Hamas  on Sunday called on King Salman bin Abdulaziz of Saudi Arabia to urge Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah al  -Sisi  to halt what it described as "Egypt's hostile stances towards Hamas  and the Gaza Strip." "We urge King Salman of Saudi...