More than 20 militants from the Islamic State of Iraq and The Levant (ISIL) have been killed in clashes with the Islamic Front in Al Raei, border town with Turkey, east countryside of Aleppo, IF sources told Zaman Alwasl. Reports say that Islamist rebels seek to take...

Some 2,500 Syrians trapped in the besieged Old City of Homs have become pawns in complex negotiations between the Syrian government and opposition, with aid agencies caught up in an ethical dilemma amid reports of starvation. U.N. mediator Lakhdar Brahimi, who ran week-long talks that...

Syria is transferring some of its most prized weapon systems to the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah, according to US officials cited by leading US newspapers, according to  JANEs Defence Magazine . The Wall Street Journal reported on 2 January that Yakhont anti-ship missile...

Two roadside bombs exploded near a patrol car in Cairo Friday, and police fired tear gas at supporters of ousted president Mohamed Morsi in Alexandria, security officials in Egypt said. One policeman was slightly wounded when his patrol car was hit by two roadside bombs in a Cairo...