Tens of thousands of people have fled Iraq's second biggest city Mosul after the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), an al-Qaeda splinter group, took control of the city. An estimated 1,300 ISIL fighters overran Iraqi security forces and seized the city's airport...

(Zaman Alwasl)- Opposition activists said fighters of al-Qaeda- affiliated group took control of Um Sharshouh village in the northern countryside of Homs province. Early today, al-Nusra’s explosives-laden vehicle has exploded and killed several...

(Zaman Alwasl)- Outrage has been sparked amid Syrian opposition after an official congratulation letter to Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi on his inauguration as president of Egypt by the opposition National Coalition. Several Coalition members...

(Reporting by Aabed Mellhem; Translation by Yusra Ahmed) Clashes have broken up between fighters of FSA and other Islamic battalions from one side, against ISIS from the other, in Tal Sha’eer and Tal Jijan villages in Aleppo's countryside....