Russia is concerned about the growing influence of ISIS, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Tuesday, calling for international cooperation on the matter. "It is common knowledge that Russia has been expressing concern at the highest levels about a growing influence of the so-called Islamic...

 The Pentagon says the military for the first time conducted armed drone missions out of Turkey last weekend, and is planning to conduct manned aircraft flights from Incirlik Air Base. Capt. Jeff Davis says so far none of the drones launched airstrikes. He says the U.S. also will likely...

The Obama administration Monday placed sanctions on a dozen companies and institutions for their role in the ongoing conflict in Syria. The Treasury Department added the names of several shipping and energy companies, including Aqua Shipping and Milenyum Energy S.A. in Turkey, to a sanctions...

U.S.-led airstrikes targeting ISIS in Iraq and Syria likely have killed hundreds of civilians, a report by an independent monitoring group said Monday. The coalition had no immediate comment. The report by Airwars, a project aimed at tracking the airstrikes targeting the extremists, said it...

A member of a new Syrian force trained by the U.S. military was believed to have been killed in clashes last week with al Qaeda's Syria wing, in what would be the fledgling force's first battlefield casualty, U.S. officials said on Monday. The U.S. officials, who spoke to...

The United States and Gulf Arab allies are cooperating to check detribalization in the region, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said on Monday, in apparent recognition of their worries that Iran's nuclear deal will deepen its influence among Arabs. Kerry said after meeting fellow...

Syria's western-backed political opposition, the National Coalition for Syrian Revolutionary and Opposition Forces, reelected Khaled Khoja for a second term as its president, the body said in a statement. The Coalition, accused of slipping into virtual irrelevance on the battlefield as Islamist...

Iran's Press Supervisory Board has suspended a hardline newspaper and cautioned two other outlets for criticizing last month's nuclear deal with world powers -- a rare move for a body more used to upholding social conservatism. The board suspended "9 Dey", a weekly newspaper that accused...

Libyan state prosecutors are investigating unidentified guards purportedly shown in a video beating a son of Muammar Gaddafi held in a Tripoli prison, a statement said on Monday. The video was posted a week after a Tripoli court sentenced Gaddafi's son Saif al-Islam and eight former regime...

 (Translation by Yusra Ahmed) Barriers, shields and checkpoints have become a familiar scene to Syrians since Assad's family, father and son, have captured the power in Syria since early sixties last century, and even before the uprising flareup in March 2011. The checkpoints gain...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- A prominent Saudi Jihadist, who leads the offensive on Bashar al-Assad's ancestral homeland in the coastal province of Latakia, says the rocket campaign on Qardaha town to be continued as regime army extends its brutal attack on border city with Lebanon. Abdullah al-Muhaysini,...

At least 27 people have been killed and 100 others wounded early on Monday when a Syrian warplane crashed into a busy marketplace in the rebel-held northwestern town of Ariha on Monday, residents and witnesses said. Most of the dead were civilians on the ground in the Idlib...

The leader of Yemen's Houthis urged his militia on Sunday to fight on against Yemen's Gulf Arab-backed government, dismissing its recapture of Aden last month as a 'limited' achievement made possible by Ramadan. In a speech live on television apparently aimed at shoring up the...

The United States and Egypt are returning to a "stronger base" in bilateral ties despite tensions and human rights concerns, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said on Sunday after talks with his Egyptian counterpart. "Egypt remains vital ... to engagement and stability in the...

President Hassan Rouhani affirmed his confidence in Iran's nuclear deal with world powers on Sunday, tackling the criticisms of hardliners and highlighting the achievements of his two-year-old presidency. With one eye on a likely run for re-election in 2017, Rouhani used a live...

Saudi Arabian King Salman left the south of France for Morocco on Sunday, cutting short a planned three-week stay after a petition from some 150,000 residents over the closure of a public beach outside his villa. A Saudi source said King Salman had arrived in Morocco, saying this...

(Translation by Yusra Ahmed) The Syrian regime has returned the hard siege on many towns of the of the countryside of Damascus after truce agreement with them by closing all the barriers to Tal, Qodsaya, Alhameh and Moadameyat al-Sham. According to regime story, those procedures came as a...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 966 civilians, including 286 children and 209 women, were killed by Syrian regime airstrikes across the war-torn country last July, the Syrian Network for Human Rights said. The monitoring group that tracks war in Syria also reported that 58 people had tortured...

US Secretary of State John Kerry sought to assure Middle East allies that the Iran nuclear deal would make them safer, as he began a regional tour in the Egyptian capital on Sunday. Kerry met his Egyptian counterpart Sameh Shoukry to patch up troubled relations between the two countries with a...

Afghanistan's Haqqani network militant group posted a statement Sunday backing the appointment of Taliban leader Mullah Akhtar Mansour whose legitimacy has been challenged internally. The statement was posted on the Taliban's website quoting its founder Jalaluddin Haqqani, a day after...