Polio Control Task Force announced that 1,393,173 children have been vaccinated during 6 days within the sixth round of the mobile polio campaign in Syria, which covers the liberated areas in seven governorates: Aleppo, Idlib, Hama, Deir al Zour,...

CAIRO (AP) — It has been a week of stunning advances by Islamic militants across a belt from Iraq to Pakistan. In Iraq, jihadi fighters rampaged through the country's second-largest city and swept farther south in their drive to establish an extremist enclave stretching into Syria....

Baghdad (AFP) - The jihadist Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant posted pictures online of militants bulldozing a berm dividing Iraq and Syria, symbolising its goal of uniting its forces in the two countries. The jihadists could be seen clearing a road through the berm, before...

(Writing by Faris al-Rifai; Translation by Yusra Ahmed) Mrs. Hiba al-Haj Ali, wife of Hosam Eddin Malas, who was sentenced in absentia for 5 years jail by the Criminal Court in Cairo, said to Zaman Alwasl: "that adjudication based on false accusation...