(Reuters) - A senior army officer was shot dead in southeastern Yemen and four fighters from a Houthi-led militia that controls much of Yemen died in a bomb attack on a guest house south of the capital Sanaa on Sunday, state media reported. Yemen has been in turmoil since 2011...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syria's National Coalition has elected Khaled Khoja, its representative in Turkey, as the new president for the opposition group after three days of fevered meetings . Sources say Khoja has good ties with regional countries. He is...

  Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- Prominent Syrian Army defector killed on Sunday when an explosive device was detonated near his car in Atemh town on the Turkish border. Mohib Omar al-Jadaan was a Colonel pilot in Syrian air...

The Islamic State has released a new propaganda video featuring British hostage John Cantlie, in which he gives a tour inside the city of Mosul in Iraq. The country's second largest city was captured by ISIS militants during a blitz in June when they murdered more than 2,000...