Sunni rebels led by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant have taken control of an important oil refinery and have offered Iraqi troops safe passage if they give up their weapons and leave, according to Al Jazeera sources.  Sources in Salheddin province on Tuesday said...

  v\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);} o\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);} w\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);} .shape {behavior:url(#default#VML);}   The judge who sentenced former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein to death has been captured and executed by ISIS...

(Reuters) - An attack from inside Syria on Sunday killed a 13-year-old Israeli boy on the occupied Golan Heights, the first fatality on Israel's side of the frontier since the Syrian civil war began, relatives and the military said. Israeli tanks fired at Syrian army...

(By Faris al-Rfai; Translation by Dani Murad) Amid the recent accelerated events in Iraq, political analyst Abed Al Rahman Matar confirmed to Zaman Al Wasl, that after the sweeping invasion of the Islamic state of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) to...