Violence in Iraq surged in 2013 to its worst level in five years, fuelled by widespread discontent among the Sunni Arab minority and Syria's civil war, figures released Wednesday showed. Bombs tore through markets, cafes, football fields and mosques, militants assaulted prisons, police...

Lebanese troops arrested the leader of the al-Qaeda-linked group responsible for a double suicide bombing at the Iranian embassy in Lebanon in November, the defense minister told Agence France-Presse on Wednesday. Maged al-Maged, the "emir" of the Abdullah...

A series of chasing Syrian media activists and Journalists in north Syrian to be continued by the radical Islamist group, The State of Iraq and The Levant (ISIL). ISIL stormed Kafranbel Media center in Idlib province Saturday night and had arrested 6 activists after...