Thousands of files have surfaced with personal data on members of the Islamic State group — documents that might help authorities track down and prosecute foreign fighters who returned home after joining the extremists, or identify those who recruited them in the first place. Germany's...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian rebels took ground form Islamic State in northern Aleppo province as the group retreated to favor of regime in the eastern countryside, activists said on Thursday. Faylaq al-Sham media officer told Zaman al-Wasl that rebels had seized control of Qara Kubri town near the...

The United States has carried out air strikes that it believes have degraded the chemical weapons capabilities of Islamic State in Iraq after using information obtained from a captured militant, the Pentagon said on Thursday. U.S.-led coalition forces detained Sulayman Dawud al...

(The Guardian- Kareem Shaheen)- Sick children dying as lifesaving medicine waits at checkpoints, youngsters forced to survive on animal feed and leaves, and families burning their mattresses just to find something to keep them warm. Schools moving underground for shelter from barrel...

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Thursday that Islamic State's military commander was badly wounded but still alive, appearing to contradict U.S. officials who said he was likely killed in a U.S. air strike. The U.S. officials said on Tuesday that Abu Omar...

Iran said on Thursday that its test-firing of ballistic missiles, designed to be able to hit Israel, were not a violation of a landmark nuclear deal reached in 2015 with six major powers, state TV quoted a senior official as saying. "Iran's missile program and its test-firing of...

(Zaman Al Wasl- Exclusive)- Among 1736 registration forms for ISIS fighters from over 40 countries that obtained by Zaman al-Wasl last December, 122 jihadists decided to be the group's suicide bombers despite other available options. The membership documents that were filled between 2013...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 20 people, including women and children,have been killed in suspected Russian air strikes on the oil-riched al-Tabiya district in eastern Deir Ezzor province, local activists said on Wednesday.

A Saudi-led coalition fighting in Yemen said on Wednesday it had exchanged prisoners with its Houthi opponents and also welcomed a pause in combat on the border, prompting hopes of a push to end the year-long war that has killed some 6,000 people. Riyadh's confirmation of a rare...

Turkish security forces have completed operations against Kurdish militants in the Sur district of southeast Turkey's largest city, Diyarbakir, but searches are continuing in the area, security sources said on Wednesday. Security operations targeting Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) fighters have...

Syria's cessation of hostilities is open-ended in the view of the United Nations and the major powers, U.N. Syria envoy Staffan de Mistura said Wednesday, brushing off a widespread perception that the truce needed renewing after two weeks. De Mistura plans to launch substantive peace talks on...

At least 250,000 Syrian children are living under siege, with many forced to eat animal feed or leaves to survive, Save the Children said Wednesday, as the war's fifth anniversary looms. "They and their families are cut off from the outside world, surrounded by warring groups that illegally use...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces backed by U.S. air strikes have pressed more advances against the Islamic State group in northeastern Hasaka province, activists said on Tuesday. The YPG-led alliance has encircled ISIS fighters in Markada town, the last remaining ISIS...

A red-bearded Islamic State commander described by American officials as the group's de facto minister of war may have been killed in an air strike in Syria on Friday by the U.S.-led coalition, several U.S. officials said on Tuesday. Abu Omar al-Shishani, also known as Omar the...

ISIS recruited Jihadists from over 40 countries worldwide including Iran and Russia. 72% of them are Arabs, 1.7% are Syrians. Main ISIS fighters' nationalities are Saudi, Tunisian, Moroccan and Egyptian. 25% of ISIS fighters are Saudis.  Turkish fighters take the lead among...

The Syrian Kurdish PYD party on Tuesday accused opposition groups backed by Saudi Arabia of throwing obstacles in the way of peace talks and said the U.N.-led effort to convene negotiations faced "many hurdles". PYD co-leader Saleh Muslim, whose party exercises wide influence over...

Two people, including a young child, were killed and another two people were wounded when the southern Turkish town of Kilis came under repeated rocket fire from across the Syrian border on Tuesday, the local mayor and security sources said. Kilis, which is near the border, was...

The U.S.-led coalition on Monday targeted Islamic State in Iraq and Syria with two dozen strikes near 15 cities, the U.S. military said in a statement released on Tuesday detailing the latest round of daily attacks against the militant group. Seventeen strikes in Iraq hit eight...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime army backed by allied Shiite forces recaptured a village from Islamist insurgents hours after Nusra Front and others seized the area south of city of Aleppo, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Tuesday. The al Qaeda-affiliated Nusra Front and Islamist...

 Tunisian security forces pressed a search for extremists near the Libyan border Tuesday after a deadly raid the authorities described as an "unprecedented" assault by ISIS. Prime Minister Habib Essid said around 50 extremists were believed to have taken part in Monday's coordinated attack...