A member of a new Syrian force trained by the U.S. military was believed to have been killed in clashes last week with al Qaeda's Syria wing, in what would be the fledgling force's first battlefield casualty, U.S. officials said on Monday. The U.S. officials, who spoke to...

Iran's Press Supervisory Board has suspended a hardline newspaper and cautioned two other outlets for criticizing last month's nuclear deal with world powers -- a rare move for a body more used to upholding social conservatism. The board suspended "9 Dey", a weekly newspaper that accused...

 (Translation by Yusra Ahmed) Barriers, shields and checkpoints have become a familiar scene to Syrians since Assad's family, father and son, have captured the power in Syria since early sixties last century, and even before the uprising flareup in March 2011. The checkpoints gain...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- A prominent Saudi Jihadist, who leads the offensive on Bashar al-Assad's ancestral homeland in the coastal province of Latakia, says the rocket campaign on Qardaha town to be continued as regime army extends its brutal attack on border city with Lebanon. Abdullah al-Muhaysini,...