The United States gave jeeps, communications technology and small aircraft to Tunisia on Thursday to help protect the border with Libya, where Islamic State has gained ground and set up training camps, officials said. The North African country was also expecting to receive a number of attack...

Syrian regime forces battled rebels north of Aleppo on Thursday as a ceasefire expired in the city itself, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and rebel sources said. The fighting was focused around the rebel-held Handarat area which is important because it is near the last route into...

Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- Activists have launched campaign calling for lifting the siege on al-Waer neighbourhood, the last  stronghold of revolution  in Homs, because it suffers of severe shortage of food, medicine and water, threatening of humanitarian crisis...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime's mortar rounds hit crowds were waiting humanitarian aid in the besieged town of Daraya west of Damascus, killing at least two people, local activists said Thursday after aid convoy denied entry. Father and his son have been killed as dozen more have been...