(Translation by Yusra Ahmed) In a show off video , Iraqi militias fighting with Syrian regime inside the country, announced the formation of “Alawite Anger Squad” in an attempt to raise the morals of Iraqi Prime Minister, Nuri al-Maliki’s regime...

CAIRO (AP) — It has been a week of stunning advances by Islamic militants across a belt from Iraq to Pakistan. In Iraq, jihadi fighters rampaged through the country's second-largest city and swept farther south in their drive to establish an extremist enclave stretching into Syria....

Militants from the extremist Islamist State of Iraq and Syria on Wednesday seized the northern Iraqi city of Tikrit, a day after the country’s second-largest city Mosul fell under their control. Their sweeping advances, and the rapid collapse of the Iraqi army - on which the...

  Supreme Military council of rebel Free Syrian Army has nominated Gen. Abdul Aziz Shlal to head Defence Ministry in the opposition government, source told Zaman Alwasl. The general commission of National Coalition will vote on the...