Female drivers in Saudi Arabia will be dealt with "strictly", authorities said on Thursday before a right-to-drive campaign culminates at the weekend. The kingdom is the world's only country where women are not allowed to operate cars. Activists said in early October they were...

(Reuters) - In recent weeks, the world has watched the battle to save Syria’s border town of Kobani from Islamic State. But the radical jihadists have for longer been engulfing another strategically more vital target - Iraq’s western Anbar province and its road to Baghdad....

(Reuters) - The Syrian air force carried out more than 200 air strikes around the country in the past 36 hours, a group monitoring the war said on Tuesday, a rapid increase in government raids as U.S.-led forces bomb Islamist insurgents elsewhere. The intensified strikes by...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 25 people, including 7 children and 2 women, have been killed by Syrian regime air strikes on border towns near the Jordanian borders, monitoring group said. The Syrian Network for Human Rights said more than 25 people has been...