US commandos have captured a major Islamic State operative in Iraq and his detention will likely lead to the apprehension of other IS targets, a US defense official told AFP Wednesday. The issue raises questions about what will happen to the detainee and others like...

Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- Local activists in northeastern Hasaka province said tens of people have been killed, tortured, displaced and looted by the Powerful Kurdish PYD militia. Two days ago,  three people from the same family were killed and many wounded due to a...

Egypt's parliament voted on Wednesday to expel an independent lawmaker who invited the Israeli ambassador in Cairo for dinner, drawing widespread criticism and prompting a fellow deputy to attack him with his shoe. Speaker Ali Abdelaal announced that 465 lawmakers, out of 490 who...

The five-year war in Syria has killed nearly half a million people and displaced more than 10 million from their homes, and now a family who waited years for the war to end is seeking their future in the small western Balkans country of Bosnia-Herzegovina. Adil Abdullah and his family always...