Al Qaeda-linked Nusra Front, in statement issued Friday, said members of the U.S.-backed group it had abducted two days ago are no more than agents to 'America', with main role serves its projects and interests in the region. Nusra Front had abducted late on Tuesday the leader of a U.S.-backed...

An 18-month-old Palestinian boy has burned to death after settlers set fire to his family house in Duma village, south of Nablus city, in the occupied West Bank. The parents of Ali Saad Dawabsheh and his four-year-old brother were also injured in the attack, sources told Al Jazeera on...

Swifts darted in and out of nesting holes in the scrubland around an old brick factory in northern Serbia. In the shade of the trees, Syrians and Afghans rested amid the rubbish of those who came before them, waiting for nightfall to walk across the nearby Hungarian border and into...

An international coalition led by the United States targeted Islamic State militants in Iraq with 22 air strikes on Wednesday, the U.S. military said on Thursday. The attacks were concentrated near Haditha, where eight strikes hit an Islamic State tactical unit, five staging...

Syrian National Security Bureau chief Ali Mamlouk has visited Riyadh for an unusual sit-down with Saudi deputy Crown Prince Mohammad Bin Salman, according to a report in a leading pro-Assad Lebanese newspaper. Al-Akhbar reported Friday morning that Russian President Vladimir Putin...

The leader of Turkey's pro-Kurdish opposition accused President Tayyip Erdogan on Thursday of launching air strikes in Syria and Iraq to prevent Kurdish territorial and political gains, and of using the war against Islamic State as a cover. Turkey launched near-simultaneous air...

Yemeni forces backed up by Saudi-led coalition air strikes have recaptured positions on the outskirts of Aden used by the Houthi group to fire rockets into the southern port city, local officials said on Thursday. Forces loyal to exiled President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi, which...

It's an astonishing statement for a refugee from war-torn Syria, but Taher has had enough of the xenophobia he has experienced in Germany. "I want to return to Syria -- very afraid here," he said this week, speaking outside a refugee centre in the small eastern town of Freital, which has...

  (Ma'moon Abu Mohamed; Translation by Yusra Ahmed) Well-informed sources revealed to Zaman al-Wasl that organ trade has been flourishing under cover and participation of Syrian regime in central city of Homs. The initial reports say the trafficking targeted Syrian detainee and...

Israel's parliament on Thursday passed into law the ability to force-feed prisoners on hunger strike, a move that has met vehement opposition from the country's medical association. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's rightist coalition weathered a lengthy parliamentary debate and the...

Afghanistan said on Wednesday that Mullah Omar, the elusive leader of the Taliban movement fighting to topple the government, died more than two years ago. The announcement came a day or so before a second round of peace talks had been tentatively scheduled, and news of the fate of the...

The al Qaeda-linked Nusra Front has abducted the leader of a U.S.-backed rebel group in north Syria, opposition sources and a monitoring group said, in a blow to Washington's efforts to train and equip fighters to combat Islamic State. A statement issued in the name of the group,...

The United States and its allies conducted 11 air strikes in Iraq on Tuesday against the Islamic State and also targeted the militant group with three strikes in Syria, the U.S. military said. Strikes in Iraq were scattered throughout the country, with three hitting tactical...

Syrian regime airstrikes killed at least 25 people and wounded dozens across Syria on Wednesday, a monitoring group reported. The dead included 8 children and a woman in attacks on Idlib and Deir Ezzor provinces, the Syrian Network for Human Rights said. Syrian army jets targeted the...

On the first visit to Iran for 12 years by a French foreign minister, Laurent Fabius conveyed an invitation from President Francois Hollande to Iran's President Hassan Rouhani to visit France in November. If Rouhani accepts, he will be the first Iranian president to make a state...

Iraqi officials were challenged on Wednesday to name a single person the country had jailed for torture by a U.N. committee investigating suspected human rights abuses in a justice system that had "gone astray". "Is there anyone in Iraq in prison, sentenced for torturing another...

Turkish jets launched their heaviest assault on Kurdish militants in northern Iraq overnight since air strikes began last week, hours after President Tayyip Erdogan said a peace process had become impossible. The strikes hit Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) targets including...

The United Nations mediator in Syria's civil war proposed on Wednesday inviting Syrians to take part in U.N.-led working groups to sort out four big issues, since the warring parties were not ready to hold formal peace talks. Mediator Staffan de Mistura told the U.N. Security...

(By Faris al-Rifai; Translation by Yusra Ahmed) The Palestinian committee for human rights has condemned the decision of United Nation-office of coordinating the Humanitarian affairs in regard to reducing the number of people under siege who need aid and support in Yarmouk refugee camp in...

An air strike by an Israeli surveillance plane hit a car in Quneitra province in southwestern Syria on Wednesday, killing two members of a militia fighting alongside the Syrian military, Hezbollah's al-Manar TV reported. The attack struck the car on the outskirts of the village of Hader,...