Israel Sunday rejected a proposal to send international observers to a flash-point holy site in a bid to calm unrest after five more stabbing incidents defied a security crackdown. Diplomatic moves to halt the more than two weeks of unrelenting violence gained steam meanwhile, with U.S....

(Writing by Faris al-Rifai; Translation by Yusra Ahmed) Samah Abo Baker, a Palestinian from Syria and former journalist in “Alikhbaria” the regime's news TV, sought asylum in France a year ago, but now, she is at brink of being thrown in street because “KAD” organisation let her down...

(Video)-  Two Syrian women in Deir Ezzor province east Syria were lashed 30 times each for theft by Radical Islamic State group that claims following Sharia, according to footage posted on the social media by local activists Saturday. Activists said two local women had been accused of...

AT CHECKPOINTS across the country, Iraq’s many and various security forces cheer Russia’s arrival as an answer to their failure to turn the tide after 16 months battling the jihadists of Islamic State (IS) in north-western Iraq. “The US and its coalition did nothing,” says a...