The U.S.-led coalition fighting Islamic State said on Friday it could not confirm a report by an Iraqi TV channel that Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi has been wounded in air strikes. A spokesman of the coalition, Colonel Chris Garver, said in an email that he had seen the reports...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime extended its aerial and ground campaign on Daraya town near the capital as clashes took place in the western and southern neighborhoods, activists said Thursday. The ongoing offensive on the besieged town of Daraya seeks to end rebel presence west...

The Israeli military on Thursday revoked permits for 83,000 Palestinians to visit Israel and said it would send hundreds more troops to the occupied West Bank after a Palestinian gun attack that killed four Israelis in Tel Aviv. There was no immediate claim of responsibility...

Reporting by Abdul Salam Bakri; Translation by Rana Abdul (Zaman al-Wasl)- In a surprising manner, Syria's oil ministry withdrew the drilling and excavating machinery from al-Mashaheer neighborhood in Latakia city few days go. Conflicting reports say it was by Russian orders or it is due a...