Militants from Yemen's Shiite Houthi movement on Thursday kidnapped seven teachers and two students from a religious school in Sanaa's northern Arhab district. The militants kidnapped the teachers and students as part of a search operation the group is conducting in the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syria’s al-Qaeda wing al-Nusra Front on Thursday has carried the fiercest attack on Shiite predominantly villages of Nubul and al-Zahra’a in Aleppo countryside, taking control of 50% of towns, activists and media...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Shariah court of rebel-held Aleppo on Wednesday urged men who are between 18 and 35 year-old to not enter government-held areas of war-torn city to avoid military conscription. Bashar al-Assad regime announced last week general...

   Beirut (The Daily Star)- Lebanon should drop its new measures requiring Syrians to obtain permits to enter the country, Speaker Nabih said Thursday, according to the Syrian ambassador. Ambassador Ali Abdel-Karim Ali quoted Berri as telling him that "there should not be...