Jordan said on Sunday a security operation to deal with around six "terrorists" holed up in a Crusader-era castle in the southern city of Karak in a shoot-out that has so far killed at least nine people was approaching its end. Government minister and spokesman Mohammad al-Momani told state...

As counterintuitive as it may sound, ISIL will still be stronger than Al Qaeda in Syria even after the former is dislodged from Mosul and Raqqa. Many counterterrorism experts have argued in recent months that it is time to turn attention towards Syria’s Jabhat Fateh Al Sham, formerly known...

The evacuations expected Sunday of fighters and civilians from east Aleppo and two Shiite villages under rebel siege in northwestern Syria have been postponed until further notice, a monitor said. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the move was decided after gunmen attacked buses...

Seven policemen, two Jordanian civilians and one Canadian tourist were killed Sunday when gunmen staged a series of attacks on police patrols and a historic castle in the heart of the southern city of Karak. According to Jordanian police, at least 20 others were injured, and security sources...

(News2Share)- “Tonight, we’re all from Aleppo. Because Aleppo never fell – we did.” It’s a freezing evening in the nation’s capital, but about two hundred are gathered in a wide circle outside the White House. There are entire families here, some of them waving Syrian flags, others holding...

Russia on Sunday warned it would use its veto to block a French-drafted resolution on sending UN observers to Aleppo, setting up yet another showdown with the West over the fate of the besieged Syrian city. Moscow presented a rival draft resolution during a closed-door meeting of the...

In 2003, President-elect Donald Trump donated $10,000 to institutions in one of Israel’s oldest and most fundamental West Bank settlements, one of the community’s founders told an Israeli radio station on Sunday. Yaakov “Katzele” Katz, one of the original settlers of Beit El, said on the...

Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir denied on Sunday reports that the United States had decided to limit military support, including a planned arms sale, to the kingdom. U.S. officials have said Washington decided to curb backing for Saudi Arabia's campaign in Yemen, including halting the...

Unidentified armed gunmen fired at several police patrols in drive-by shootings in the southern Jordanian city of Karak with reports of several casualties, security sources said. They said the attackers were being pursued in an ancient castle in the mountainous city where some of the...

   Several buses en route to evacuate ill and injured people from the besieged Syrian villages of al-Foua and Kefraya were attacked and burned on Sunday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and Syrian state television said. Some buses, as well as Red Crescent vehicles, reached...

NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg Sunday defended the alliance's decision to refrain from stepping into the war in Syria, saying doing so would only make matters worse. All 28 NATO members belong to the US-led coalition battling ISIS but they are not directly involved in the Syrian conflict....

(CNN)- According to the UN, more than 400,000 people have died in Syria's civil war. Thousands of these victims have included women and children caught in the crossfire In the most recent horrific scenes, children were said to have been burned alive as the Syrian government...

(BBC)- A war photographer who survived a deadly blast in Syria has joined a convoy taking London doctors to the embattled country. It is the first time Paul Conroy has returned to Syria since he was injured in an attack that killed journalists Marie Colvin and Remi Ochlik in 2012. The...

Richard Bunce says he felt sick when voters decided to take Britain out of the European Union in June, forcing him into a emergency review of his firm's expansion plans. But six months on, orders are strong and a new growth plan is in place, according to Bunce, managing director of Mec Com...

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) hopes to resume the evacuation of civilians and wounded from the Syrian enclave of east Aleppo on Sunday, a spokeswoman said. "We are getting ready to resume the evacuation of people from eastern Aleppo, hopefully this morning," ICRC...

The UN Security Council was to vote Sunday on sending observers to Aleppo, as trapped civilians and rebels waited desperately for evacuations to resume from an opposition-held enclave in the flashpoint Syrian city. A rebel representative told AFP an agreement had been reached to allow more...

At least 90 people evacuated from war-battered Aleppo city have been transferred to hospitals in Turkey’s southern Hatay province for medical treatment. According to an Anadolu Agency correspondent, the injured, who are in a serious condition, were allowed into Turkey via Cilvegozu border...

Israeli forces shot and killed a Palestinian on Sunday, the Palestinian Health Ministry said, after entering a village in the occupied West Bank where, the Israeli military said, they were confronted by stone-throwers. A military spokeswoman said an Israeli paramilitary policeman was injured...

 An explosion Sunday morning outside a military camp near the southern Yemeni city of Aden has killed at least 23 people, according to Yemeni officials. The officials tell The Associated Press that the explosion is suspected of being the work of a suicide bomber wearing an explosive...

(The Guardian)- On Friday, near Palmyra, 14 tanks and an anti-aircraft system were destroyed in an air strike on Isis. Palmyra recently fell to the jihadists after the Syrian regime and its allies diverted forces to Aleppo, leaving the ancient city under-defended. This was a repeat of events...