(Reuters) - Yemen's Houthi movement has freed the presidential chief of staff, whom it seized on Jan. 17 during a power struggle with then President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi, Houthi official Ali al-Quhoom and two government officials said on Tuesday. The seizure of the aide, Ahmed...

Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- The National Coalition’s Embassy in Doha has announced officially launching the process of renewing expired Syrian passports starting 29th January 2015, restricted to Syrians in Qatar only as a first step. The Embassy...

Iraqi Peshmerga forces killed 36 Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant militants Tuesday near the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, a Peshmerga commander said. “Peshmerga forces repelled ISIL’s attack and killed 36 militants, including Abo Omar al-Kurdi, an ISIL leader,”Albay...

(Reuters) - At least two rockets from Syria hit the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights on Tuesday and Israel returned fire, the military said, nine days after an Israeli air strike in Syria killed an Iranian general and several Lebanese Hezbollah guerrillas. An Israeli military...