A car bomb exploded outside a bus terminal in central Baghdad on Sunday, killing at least nine people and wounding 16, police and medics said. No group immediately claimed responsibility for the attack at the Allawi al-Hillah bus terminal but Sunni Islamist insurgents have been gaining...
Several factions of the Syrian opposition, meeting together for the first time, called on Friday for a new coalition but did not reach agreement on who should attend peace talks later this month, or whether they would attend at all. With less than a fortnight to go until the first...

Islamist rebels have seized the State of Iraq and Levant's main stronghold in al-Dana town in Idlib province after almost one week of clashes, Syrian Revolution a ctivists said. Rebel fighters, who seized ISIL’s HQ in Aleppo yesterday, were...