(Reporting by Lama Shammas; Translation by Yusra Ahmed) ISTANBUL-(Zaman Alwasl)- “For serious customers only” , a scarce picture of Sulaiman Qanoni, the Ottoman Sultan, looking for a buyer appreciates its value and effort to smuggle it from Syria. It is not a joke or a...

With American bombs again falling over Iraq—this time striking Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL, recently renamed the “Islamic State”) positions near the Kurdish city of Irbil—the White House is finally bowing to the inevitable conclusion that this terror group...

(Reuters) - Islamic State militants extended their gains in northern Iraq on Thursday, seizing more towns and strengthening a foothold near the Kurdish region in an offensive that has alarmed the Baghdad government and regional powers. The advance forced thousands of...

(Reuters) - The Lebanese army advanced on Monday into a border town attacked by Islamists at the weekend in the most serious spillover of the three-year-old Syrian civil war into Lebanon, and the Beirut government said the deadly assault would not go unpunished. With army...