U.S. officials said on Monday 15 inmates from the Guantanamo prison were transferred to the United Arab Emirates, the single largest transfer of Guantanamo detainees during President Barack Obama's administration. The transfer of the 12 Yemeni and three Afghan citizens brings the total...

The jihadi employment form asked the recruits, on a scale of 1 to 3, to rate their knowledge of Islam. And the Islamic State applicants, herded into a hangar somewhere at the Syria-Turkey border, turned out to be overwhelmingly ignorant. The extremist group could hardly have hoped for better....

Syrian rebels killed a senior Hizballah leader on Monday as they led a failed assault on a regime barracks in Aleppo, according to a source in the Army of Conquest military operations room. The source told The New Arab that a Hizballah commander was killed as rebels attempted to take control...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian opposition activists say a push by an alliance of rebel groups to open a new front with regime forces in Aleppo has failed. The activists and the websites reported Monday that the rebels retreated from positions they seized near a cement factory a day earlier on the...