SOUSSE Tunisia (Reuters) - Tunisians were used to seeing Nidhal Selmi belting around a stadium, proudly sporting his country's red and white colors as a defender on the national football squad. So it was a shock when he appeared in a camouflage...

  Reporting by Mamoun Abu Mohamed; Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- Houses and properties of displaced people of Baba Amr  neighborhood of war-torn city of Homs have been distributed on regime army officers, Local activists said....

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Islamic State fighters attacked a government complex in the heart of Ramadi on Friday, local officials said, part of an apparently coordinated assault to seize full control of the provincial capital west of Baghdad. Gunmen fired...

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said on Thursday that "international cooperation" was necessary to crush the Islamic State group, which is the target of a US-led campaign. "The region is going through decisive times" and the most important factor in determining the outcome is...