Daoud Brigade will launch major military act against Bashar al-Assad forces in coordination with other rebel factions in Idlib countryside, sources told Zaman Alwasl. The Daoud Brigade, which has pledged allegiance to the State of Iraq and The Levant (ISIL), issued a...

At least five people have been killed in three bombings in the Egyptian capital, the latest in a series of attacks that have rattled the public and undermined confidence in the interim government. The first and deadliest explosion tore through the security directorate in...

Syria’s warring sides are not sitting in the same room in the Geneva peace talks despite efforts by U.N. mediator Lakhdar Brahimi to bring them together. Instead Brahimi is meeting with representatives of President Bashar al-Assad’s government at 11:00 a.m. (1000 GMT) and will meet...

The moment the eyes of the warring Syrian delegations met in Switzerland was historic. But peace talks between representatives from Syria’s government and opposition could still drag on for weeks, if not months. During the preliminary session at the Fairmont Le Montreux Palace on the...