A suicide bomber attacked an Iraqi position on the border with Saudi Arabia Saturday, killing six guards, including a commander, officials said. The attack by the bomber, who detonated an explosives-rigged vehicle at the headquarters of the Hafr Zawiyah border post in Iraq's vast Anbar...

A U.S. government agency report has warned that Islamic State has the ability to create fake Syrian passports, a federal official confirmed on Friday. A spokeswoman for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement confirmed the contents of a story by CNN on Friday about the report,...

(Reuters)- Two Syrian nationals were arrested in Geneva on Friday and traces of explosives were found in their car, the local newspaper Tribune de Geneve and Swiss television said. The newspaper gave no details on the identity of the two men or the circumstances of their arrest....

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad declared on Friday that he would not negotiate with armed groups, appearing to scupper peace talks that Russia and the United States hope to bring about next month. Washington helped broker an agreement reached on Thursday by more than 100 members of Syria's...

Mohannad is a spy for Islamic State. He eavesdrops on chatter in the street markets of Mosul and reports back to his handlers when someone breaks the militant group's rules. One man he informed on this year – a street trader defying a ban on selling cigarettes – was fined and tortured...

(Zaman Al Wasl)-  At least four people, including a mother and her two daughters, have been killed in a missile attack on the town of al-Nashshabiyeh in eastern rural Damascus, local activists said Friday. Syrian regime backed by Russia's jets has stepped up its devastating aerial...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian rebels have taken Hamzat village in the northern Aleppo province from Isis, activists said on Friday. Al-Shamiyeh Front, key rebel group operating in Aleppo province, with other rebel factions have captured the village after fierce fighting with Isis militants. Late on...

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said on Friday some questions still needed to be resolved over a deal among the Syrian opposition on joining peace talks but added he was confident they could be worked out. "There are some questions, and obviously in our judgment, some kinks to...

France's Socialist prime minister warned on Friday of a slide towards "civil war" if the far-right National Front wins power in regional polls this weekend as a stepping stone toward its 2017 presidential election campaign. Manuel Valls, head of the Socialist national...

(Reuters)- Turkey has decided in talks with Iraqi officials to "reorganize" its military personnel at the Bashiqa camp near the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, the prime minister's office said on Friday, after a dispute emerged with Baghdad over the deployment. Iraq demanded last...

Russia has no plans to carry out air strikes in Libya, a stronghold of Islamic militants, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Friday. "This is not in our plans. We have had no requests of this kind from the government of Libya ... and there is no government of Libya as...

Iraq's top Shi'ite cleric, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, called on the government on Friday to show "no tolerance" of any infringement of the country's sovereignty, after Turkey deployed heavily armed troops to northern Iraq. Sistani's spokesman, Sheikh Abdul Mehdi Karbala'i,...

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has two choices: “Either to leave through negotiations or be forcibly removed from power,” Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir said in Riyadh on Thursday. He was speaking to reporters during a two-day meeting of Syrian opposition groups wherein Assad foes...

President Vladimir Putin on Friday ordered his forces in Syria to take tough action against any threats, speaking two weeks after Turkey shot down a Russian warplane in the war-torn country. "Any targets threatening the Russian grouping or our land infrastructure should be immediately...

A Palestinian driver attempted to ram his car into Israeli soldiers at a checkpoint in the occupied West Bank on Friday and was shot dead, the Israeli military said. The attack occurred on the outskirts of Hebron, a large Palestinian city in the south of the West Bank. A campaign of...

After months of promises and weeks of preparation, the first Canadian government planeload of Syrian refugees landed in Toronto on Thursday, aboard a military aircraft met by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Trudeau was elected to a surprise majority in October promising to accept more...

By now, the news alerts are all too familiar: "Stabbing near Old City: Israeli wounded, attacker shot dead", read a recent bulletin. Another came by text message on Wednesday: "Stabbing attack: 2 wounded, one light, terrorist shot dead." Over the past 2-1/2 months, since a wave of violence by...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 22 people killed and 100 wounded Thursday in three truck bombs carried out by ISIS in a Kurdish-controlled town in northern province of Hasaka, activists and monitoring group said. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said 22 people have been killed in Tal Tamer...

A joint team of Syria's political and armed opposition will meet the government next month for talks seeking a political solution to nearly five years of conflict, the chairman of a Saudi-hosted opposition conference said on Friday. More than 100 members of Syria's opposition...

Germany is at risk of a terrorist attack but the danger has not increased because of its part in the military campaign against Islamic State in Syria, the head of Germany's BfV domestic security agency has said. Hans-Georg Maassen told German broadcaster MDR that IS and Al...