(Reuters) - Bombs exploded in three cities in Afghanistan on Monday killing at least 10 policemen, officials said, a day after a Taliban suicide bomber blew himself in Kabul's police headquarters killing one person. The Taliban were ousted from power in 2001 by U.S.-led...

(Reuters) - Local ceasefires in Syria may be the best way to ease the suffering of civilians in the absence of a political solution to the three-and-a-half year conflict, researchers from the London School of Economics said on Monday. In a report that looked at more than 35...

(Reuters) - Egypt's most active militant group, Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis, has sworn allegiance to Islamic State, the al Qaeda offshoot which has seized territory in Syria and Iraq , according to an audio clip posted on its Twitter account. If genuine, the declaration of...

By Al Hussein Al Shishakli (Zaman Al Wasl)- Zaman al-Wasl source disclosed that National Coalition’s Envoy to Qatar had accompanied   Moaz Alkhatib, the former head of key opposition group, in his visit to Russia where they had met...