French Foreign Ministry confirms that RFI journalists were abducted and killed by gunmen outside town of Kidal. Two French journalists have been killed in the northern Mali town of Kidal after being abducted by gunmen. Ghislaine Dupont and Claude Verlon, both journalists with...

  State-run media accused the UN-Arab Envoy to Syria Lakhdar Brahimi of being double faced . Al Thawra newspaper tilted its editorial yesterday ''Brahimi is one eyed,  many tongued,'' saying that  he wanted to please all parties, when his job as a UN Envoy...

Binnish and al-Fu'ah neighboring towns in northwestern Syria witnessed fierce clashes recently over kidnapping 7 farmers from Binnish orchards by Fu'ah militants, Zaman Alwasl reported said . Rebels of the Sunni town in response have bombarded the pro-Assad town,...

14 Syrian tribes in Raqqa, east Syria have reportedly pledged allegiance to the Islamic State of Iraq and The Levant, al-Qaeda affiliate in Syria . A mere year ago, the same tribes pledged allegiance to Bashar al-Assad, Hassan Hassan, Opinion deputy editor for The...