Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Thursday proposed a body within the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) to solidify and institutionalize cooperation against terrorism. “It is necessary to conduct operations against terror organization on the ground, while there should [also]...

President Barack Obama said on Wednesday the U.S.-led coalition fighting Islamic State in Syria and Iraq had put the militant group on the defensive, shrinking its territory and striking key leaders. "We have momentum and we intend to keep that momentum," Obama told reporters...

Syria's parliamentary elections on Wednesday are a "sham" organized by "an oppressive regime," France's foreign ministry said, adding that viable elections could only take place after a political transition and new constitution. "France denounces this sham of an election organized by the...

Reporting by Hussein al-Zoubi; Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- The chief of opposition's High Negotiations Committee assured that discussing the transitional ruling body with full executive powers and not a participatory government under Bashar al-Assad is the opposition's main...