BEIRUT (AP) — Syrian authorities detained a prominent Damascus-based writer and dissident Wednesday as he was trying to leave the country, his political party said. Louay Hussein was taken into custody at the Syria-Lebanon border as he was heading to Spain to visit his...

  (Reuters)- A Canadian-born woman who emigrated to Israel and served in its military has joined Kurdish militants fighting Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) insurgents in northern Syria, Israel Radio reported on Monday. The Canadian...

(Zaman Al Wasl)-   The recent leaks of Zaman al-Wasl for the brutal and criminal practices of Air Forces Intelligence are ringing the alarm bells inside Bashar al-Assad’s close security circle, well-informed source says. The latest...

BAGHDAD — The vengeance that Iraq’s Shiite militias mete out as they fight the Islamic State group can be just as brutal as that of their sworn sectarian enemies. In a grisly video recently posted online, a Shiite fighter shouts the name of a revered imam in victory as he...