In the days before the Islamic State group's Syrian bastion Al-Bab fell, Umm Abdo's family sheltered underground both from the bombing and from jihadists themselves looking for somewhere to hide. In a narrow rubbish-strewn street lined with broken and blackened stalls, the 30-year-old mother...

Two Afghan friends were incarcerated together at Guantanamo Bay, but they chose starkly divergent paths after release ?- one became an Islamic State jihadist, the other joined the US-led government fight to crush the group. Haji Ghalib and Abdul Rahim Muslim Dost, whose friendship coalesced...

Palestinian officials on Sunday called for a boycott of Israeli military courts after a Palestinian freed in a 2011 prisoner exchange was rearrested and sent back to prison for life. Speaking in the Israeli-occupied West Bank city of Ramallah, Palestinian Prisoners Club head Qadura Fares...

  (Zaman Al Wasl)- Two civilians were killed on Sunday in regime airstrikes on the besieged al-Waer neighborhood in Homs city, local reporter said. The residents of al-Waer and the towns and villages in Homs’ northern countryside are immobilized. All daily activities have halted...