(Zaman Al Wasl)- One of Basher al-Assad’s close relatives was killed on Thursday when Islamist rebels seized control of strategic Sheikh Miskeen city in Daraa province, south Syria, activists said Aktah Ibrahim Shalish is the cousin of...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Islamist rebels have taken control of strategic Sheikh Miskeen city in Daraa province in the Syrian south, activists said on Thursday. Backed by the hardline Islamic factions, al- Nusra Front overrun Syrian regime’s bastions...

BEIRUT: The Lebanese Army arrested 24 suspects including three Syrians with alleged links to terrorist groups and four gunmen over their involvement in last month’s clashes in Tripoli, part of the military’s nationwide crackdown on terror suspects. Security sources told The...

(Reuters) - Air strikes by a U.S.-led coalition set up to fight Islamic State targeted the al Qaeda-linked Nusra Front in northwest Syria overnight, an organization that tracks violence in the Syrian civil war reported on Thursday. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights...