(IBTimes- Zaid al-Fares)- Like James Foley before him, Steven Sotloff has become the subject of global attention following his tragic beheading at the hands of Islamic State (formerly Isis) militants. The world has united, with total justification, to decry this pointless and...

Translation by Dani Murad (Zaman Al Wasl- Eqtsad)- Much has been written about the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) and why it’s considered one of the world’s richest terrorist groups, as in the previously published article by Eqtsad when the...

BAGHDAD (AP) — With a new Iraqi government finally in place and a growing Mideast consensus on defeating insurgent threats, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry pressed Iraq's Shiite leader on Wednesday to quickly deliver more power to wary Sunnis — or jeopardize any hope of...

(AP) — An ultraconservative Syrian rebel group says it has named new leaders, a day after an explosion killed nearly a dozen of its top members. A spokesman for Ahrar al-Sham said Wednesday in a video statement posted online that Hashem al-Sheik Abu Jaber would assumed overall...