(Zaman Alwasl)- At least 30.000 people fled towns captured by the Islamic State (IS) near the Syrian- Iraqi borders, a monitoring group said Sunday. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said thousands of people have fled the...

The first appearance of self-proclaimed "caliph" Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in a video shot in an Iraqi mosque illustrates the extent of his jihadist group's control and confidence, experts say. Baghdadi, whose Islamic State (IS) group holds territory in both Iraq and Syria, called for...

(Reuters) - The Yemeni air force bombed Shi'ite Muslim fighters north of Sanaa on Saturday in fighting that caused "a large number of casualties", local officials said, after a truce reached last month between the insurgents and government forces collapsed. The fighting in...

(Translation by Dani Murad) As the battle for the Qalamoun region still raging, regime forces bombarded two days ago the village of "Bassima" in Damascus countryside with explosive barrels and mortar shells, meanwhile the machine guns of the...