Paris (AFP) - French police on Sunday detained relatives and friends of one of the seven gunmen and suicide bombers who killed at least 129 people in a wave of attacks in Paris claimed by the Islamic State group, as the investigation widened. The first attacker to be named was...

French Prime Minister Manuel Valls said Sunday that 103 bodies had been identified from Friday's attacks in Paris, with 20 to 30 more still awaiting identification. "They will be (identified) in the coming hours," said Valls outside the Ecole Militaire where a centre has been set up...

Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- Mazen Mubarak, a-10- year Syrian boy died in Mafraq city in Jordan as a result of leukemia, added to the neglect of the humanitarian and relief organizations especially “Oun” organisation, which is supported by United Nations high commissioner for...

French police have identified the first of seven gunmen who killed at least 129 people in a wave of carnage claimed by ISIS, as international investigators stepped up their probes into Paris's worst ever attacks. French authorities Saturday named the first attacker as 29-year-old Omar Ismail...

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan urged world leaders on Saturday to prioritize the fight against terrorism as they gathered for a summit in southwestern Turkey, saying the Paris attacks claimed by Islamic State showed the time for words was now over. The worst bloodshed in...

 Saudi Arabia's foreign minister said on Saturday that his country would continue to support Syrian rebels if Bashar al-Assad could not be removed through a political process, Reuters reported. "We will support the Syrian people," Adel al-Jubeir told journalists on the...

  (Zaman Al Wasl - Financial Times )- U.S. led air strikes in Syria have inflicted "significant damage" to Islamic State's ability to fund itself, the Pentagon said on Friday. Recent strikes in an air operation dubbed "Tidal Wave II" have been concentrated on oil facilities in the Deir...

The Paris terror attacks are likely to galvanize a stronger global military response to Islamic State, after a U.S.-led air war that has lasted more than a year has failed to contain a group now proving itself to be a growing worldwide threat. The United States, long accused of...

 Police on Saturday took into custody the father and brother of a French gunman linked to a string of deadly Paris attacks and were searching the family's home. Sources close to a probe into the France's worst ever terror attacks told AFP that police took the two into custody...

(El Dorar Al Shamia)- The rebel factions were able, on Saturday, to inflict Assad's forces and its supporting militias losses in lives and materiel south countryside of Aleppo. The Media Office of the Jaish al-Naser "director Mohammed Rashid,"...

(El Dorar Al Shamia)- Army of Victory “Jaish ala-Naser” declared  on Saturday, Mobilization to address the fierce military campaign on villages and towns of the southern countryside of Aleppo. The Major Commander  of the “Jaish ala-Naser” Mohammed Mansour tweet on his personal...

Belgian police arrested several suspects in Brussels on Saturday during raids connected to the Paris attacks, including one who was in the French capital at the time of the carnage, Prime Minister Charles Michel said. Michel told Belgian television that the arrests were linked...

Athens (AFP) - Two men who French police are seeking to trace in connection with the Paris attacks registered as refugees with Greek authorities earlier this year, the Greek police confirmed on Saturday. French authorities had asked their Greek counterparts to check a passport and fingerprints...

The United States, Russia and powers from the Middle East and Europe outlined a plan on Saturday for a political process in Syria leading to elections within two years, but differences over the fate of President Bashar al-Assad remained. A day after gunmen and suicide bombers went on a...

Syria's al Qaeda offshoot, the Nusra Front, said on Saturday it had captured three Lebanese Hezbollah fighters in northern Syria. Scores of Hezbollah fighters have been killed battling rebels on behalf of Syrian President Bashar al Assad, but relatively few have been taken captive....

(Reuters)- One of the gunmen who died after attacking a Paris concert hall on Friday had French nationality and was known to have ties with Islamist militants, a source close to the inquiry into a series of deadly attacks in Paris said on Saturday. The same source said that the gunman's body...

 The United States and its allies targeted ISIS in Iraq with 20 airstrikes Friday, and also hit the militant group with seven airstrikes in Syria, the U.S. military said Saturday. Nine of the strikes in Iraq were staged near Ramadi, hitting tactical and fighting ISIS units, weapons...

A mass grave believed to hold the remains of dozens of Yazidi women executed by ISIS was found Saturday in northern Iraq, officials said. The grave, which has not yet been excavated, is located on the edge of the town of Sinjar, which was captured from ISIS this week in an operation led...

Two Palestinian Islamist groups on Saturday condemned the Paris attacks that killed at least 128 people, officials in both organizations said. Senior figures in both Hamas, considered by the U.S. and EU to be a "terrorist" group, and Islamic Jihad expressed indignation at the...

 The Islamic State group has claimed responsibility for attacks in Paris that killed over 127 people. The claim was made in a statement in Arabic and French released online Saturday and circulated by supporters of the group. It was not immediately possible to confirm the...