Kurdish militias seized another seven villages in northeastern  Syria , activists said on Wednesday, a day after the fighters' political wing announced an interim administration that aims to carve out an autonomous Syrian Kurdish region. Kurds, often described as the world's...

  Al-Qaeda affiliated in Syria has released the first edition of its weekly newspaper. Sana al-Sham is 8-pages newspaper focuses on the main achievements of ISIL battles. In this edition the pro-al-Qaeda editor glorified the victory against the Northern Storm brigade in...

Zaman Alwas has obtained exclusively the minutes of the fifth meeting of the political committee of the National Coalition for Syrian Revolutionary and Opposition Forces. The meeting which was held between 29-31 October, has discussed many events, suggestions and...

Sexual harassment, high rates of female genital cutting and a surge in violence and Islamist feeling after the Arab Spring uprisings have made Egypt the worst country in the Arab world to be a woman, a poll of gender experts showed on Tuesday. Discriminatory laws and a spike in trafficking...