Kurdish forces in the Syrian town of Kobane repulsed a new attempt by Islamic State fighters to cut off the border with Turkey Saturday as troops battled the jihadists in neighbouring Iraq. A Kurdish official reported five new US-led strikes around Kobane overnight as the...

(Reuters) - Hurricane Gonzalo slammed into Bermuda on Friday, knocking out most of the electricity as it lashed the tiny Atlantic island chain with pounding surf, torrential rain and howling wind, but there were no immediate reports of injuries. The strongest storm to sweep...

(By Abdullah Al Ghadawi; Translation by Yusra Ahmed) (Zaman Al Wasl)-   Turkish President Rajab Tayib Erdogan expressed his surprise from the Syrian Opposition’s performance, in particular the disagreements among its political and military...

  (IANS/EFE) At least eight Islamist rebels died when a car bomb exploded near one of their bases in the northern Syrian province of Idleb, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) reported Friday. The London-based NGO said that the attack took place Thursday near a...