Reporting by Orwa   Sousi;   Translation by Yusra Ahmed  (Zaman Al Wasl)- Local activists of the coastal city of Jeblah reported daily arresting and brutal abuses for Sunni sect by National Defense militia. The Phoenician city...

(Reuters) - Kurdish forces defending Kobani urged a U.S.-led coalition to escalate air strikes on Islamic State fighters who tightened their grip on the Syrian town at the border with Turkey on Saturday. A group that monitors the Syrian civil war said the Kurdish forces...

(Reuters) - A suicide attacker wearing a police uniform attacked a provincial police headquarters in southern Afghanistan on Saturday, killing one officer and wounding four other people, an official said. The bombing in Helmand province is the latest by militants bent on...

(Reuters) - Turkey has agreed to support the training and equipping of moderate opposition groups in Syria , the U.S. State Department said on Friday, saying a U.S. military planning team would visit Ankara next week to further talks on the matter. " Turkey has agreed...