Al-Qaeda-linked group in Syria has appointed new Emir for al-Dana town in Idlib countryside after assassinating its emire Abu Abdullah al-Lybi by unknown armed group next to Bab al-Hawa crossing border last week, special source told Zaman Alwasl. The State of Iraq and al-Sham...

  Syrian rebels have circulated footage on the social media showing them playing football in their leisure time. Rebel  FaceBook page quoted the  fighters saying, ''we have to approve that life will go on as well as we surpass pain and sadness;...

Syrian mainstream and Islamist rebels pressed an advance Wednesday against Bashar al-Assad troops in Homs province aimed at capturing major weapons depots, rebels and a monitoring group said. Several brigades, among them the Al-Qaida-affiliated Islamic State of Iraq and the...

A 15-year-old Yemeni girl has been burned to death for allegedly meeting her fiancé before their wedding, police said on Tuesday, adding that her father was the chief suspect. Prosecutors are to press charges against the 35-year-old over the death of his daughter in the village of...