(By Lama Shammas; Translation by Yusra Ahmed) The Syrian community in Istanbul celebrated on Friday the opening of “Pages”, the first Arabic library in the city which contains wide variety of Arabic, Turkish, English and French books. Samer al-Qadiri, an artist and one of the library’s...

 Number of young men of Syria's Druze minority, who joined regime army to figh rebels south Syria, have quitted conscription saying regime has breached a promise to not get them involved in fight out of Sweida province, their historic stronghold, activists said Sunday. Local activists also...

Crawling under barbed wire and leaping over burning tires, dozens of bare-chested young fighters train in a barren part of central Yemen, preparing to head to the frontlines of their country's worsening conflict. Less than 100 miles (150 km) away in Aden, former army officers are readying a...

Libya's recognized government said on Sunday that Algerian veteran militant Mokhtar Belmokhtar, a major figure in North African and Sahel Islamist insurgencies, has been killed in a U.S. air strike inside Libya. Earlier, the U.S. Department of Defense said the U.S. military conducted a counter...