Protests over unemployment rates in Tunisia, which started in the western Kasserine province, have intensified and spread to other parts of the country. Solidarity rallies were held in cities including Tunis, Sidi Bouzid and Gafsa on Thursday, with several reports of suicide attempts as...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Al Qaeda's Syria branch, the Nusra Front, has set up three more checkpoints in rebel-held Aleppo city late on Wednesday, such a move sparked outrage of rebel factions operating in Aleppo. Zaman al Wasl reporter said people of Aleppo have also expressed their disappointment...

Iraqi Prime Minister Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said on Thursday that three Americans who disappeared in Iraq last week "just went missing," and he very much doubted any Iranian involvement. Asked by a pool reporter at the start of a meeting with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry in Davos...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime allowed Wednesday fuel and gas trucks to enter besieged al-Waer neighborhood in Homs, local activists told Zaman al-Wasl. Three trucks loaded by fuel and 500 gas cylinders were entered to al-Awer in biding to the U.N.-brokered ceasefire reached last month....