Reporting by Orwa   Sousi;   Translation by Yusra Ahmed  (Zaman Al Wasl)- Local activists of the coastal city of Jeblah reported daily arresting and brutal abuses for Sunni sect by National Defense militia. The Phoenician city...

  (Zaman Al Wasl)- Fighters of key rebel group Islamic Front have stormed barracks of regime army near Safira Defence Factories south Aleppo, killing at least 15 troops, activists and Twitter feeds reported. Activists said rebels have taken...

(Reuters) - Kurdish forces defending Kobani urged a U.S.-led coalition to escalate air strikes on Islamic State fighters who tightened their grip on the Syrian town at the border with Turkey on Saturday. A group that monitors the Syrian civil war said the Kurdish forces...

(Reuters)- Tunisia has arrested some 1,500 suspected jihadists this year, Prime Minister Mehdi Jomaa told Reuters, part of a security crackdown aimed at safeguarding the North African country's fragile transition to democracy. Among those held are hundreds of militants...