Tens of thousands of people have fled Iraq's second biggest city Mosul after the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), an al-Qaeda splinter group, took control of the city. An estimated 1,300 ISIL fighters overran Iraqi security forces and seized the city's airport...

(Zaman Alwasl)- Outrage has been sparked amid Syrian opposition after an official congratulation letter to Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi on his inauguration as president of Egypt by the opposition National Coalition. Several Coalition members...

Saudi Arabia and Russia discussed Monday prospects of reaching a diplomatic solution to the three-year-old Syrian crisis that has claimed the lives of more than 100,000 and left millions of Syrians homeless. "Foreign Minister Prince Saud Al-Faisal and his Russian counterpart Sergei...

BEIRUT (AP) — An offensive by a breakaway al-Qaida group in eastern Syria against Islamic rebel factions has killed more than 630 people and uprooted at least 130,000 since the end of April, an activist group said Tuesday. The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant's campaign in...