More than 400  Turkmens  are in the hands of the Islamic State of  Iraq  and the Levant, or ISIL, says a report issued Thursday. The Iraqi Turkmen Rescue foundation, based in Baghdad, submitted the report to the Iraqi parliament’s human rights committee...

Yemen's former president Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi escaped weeks of house arrest by the Houthi militia at his official residence on Saturday and fled to his home town of Aden, sources close to him said. He will make a speech later on Saturday on an Aden television station, the sources...

Reporting by Mohamed Al Hussein; Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- A map was published by Nori Brimo, the Member of the National Kurdish Council which shows the area of Syrian Kurdistan, has provoked countless queries among observers, who...

(Reuters) - A monitoring group said on Saturday Syrian government forces and allied militants killed 48 fighters and family members during last week's offensive against opposition-held areas in Aleppo province, but the army denied it. "I deny completely such an act that cannot be...