Gunmen from the Somali Islamist group al-Shabab killed at least eight officers in a raid on a police station near the capital, police and the militants said on Saturday. "Al-Shabab killed eight of my colleagues and took three of our cars," Major Abdikadir Hussein, a police officer, told...

A well-informed source told Zaman al-Wasl that key rebel groups operating in the Syrian south are planning to form their own version of Fatah Army, the powerful alliance north Syria that took full control of Idlib province in the last two months. The alliance will include Nusra Front, Ahrar...

Five people have been killed and 15 others have been injured in a barrel bomb attack allegedly carried out by Bashar al-Assad regime forces in Aleppo’s Maadi district, a civil defense official said Friday. "The civil defense squad also pulled out a number of injured people from several...

 WikiLeaks is in the process of publishing more than 500,000 Saudi diplomatic documents to the Internet, the transparency website said Friday, a move that echoes its famous release of US State Department cables in 2010, AP reported.  WikiLeaks said in a statement that it has already...