Libyan Prime Minister Ali Zeidan has been freed by former rebels who seized him from a hotel earlier on Thursday, the state news agency reported.  Zeidan was seized by former rebels and was held at the ministry’s anti-crime department, according to Reuters. The...

Al-Qaeda linked-groups with FSA rebels are very close to retake   a strategic town in northern Syria,  field sources told Zaman Alwasl.   The Islamic State in Iraq and and al-Sham  and Jabhat al-Nusrah have cut off Assad forces' only supply route out of...

The United States on Wednesday cut hundreds of millions of dollars in aid to its Mideast ally Egypt, responding to the military ouster last summer of the nation's first democratically elected president and the crackdown on protesters that has sunk the country into violent turmoil. While the...

40 militants from the Iranian-backed militias, Hezbollah and Abu al-Fadhel al-Abbas have been killed in rebels' ambush near the Shiite Shrine, Sayyedah Zeinab in Damascus suburbs.   Hezbollah have been battling alongside Syrian regime forces in an attempt to...