The Syrian regime army and Lebanese Hezbollah fighters said on Sunday they had entered the rebel-held city of Zabadani on the second day of a major offensive to capture the border area around the Beirut-Damascus highway, Reuters reported . The regime army, backed by Hezbollah...

Islamic State suicide bombers on Sunday blew up an explosive- laden truck near a power plant that serves the northeastern city of Hasaka, the latest attack after their expulsion from most parts of the city, the Syrian army said. State television said a second attack, against a power plant that...

(Translation by Yusra Ahmed) Zaman al-Wasl obtained a document issued by pro-regime National Defence Forces in Yarmouk camp for Palestinian refugees, releasing 130 names of people as members of battalions opposing the Syrian regime in Southern Damascus. The wanted list mentioned the full name...

Islamic State suicide bombers and fighters attacked the center of Iraq's northern oil refinery town of Baiji overnight, forcing the army and Shi'ite fighters to pull back, military sources and the local mayor said on Sunday. The town of Baiji and its refinery - Iraq's largest -...

Bombing by government forces in southern Syria has forced four field hospitals to close, with medical workers among those injured by recent bombings, monitors say. On Wednesday an airstrike in the village of Saida just east of Deraa city, aimed at a checkpoint held by the rebel group...

Two alliances of Syrian rebels battled to advance in government-held western Aleppo on Saturday, seizing an army barracks in one district but losing ground in others, in some of the fiercest fighting in the city since the conflict began. US-led coalition forces, meanwhile, said they carried out...

 Islamic State on Saturday released a video showing the execution of 25 Syrian regime soldiers in the ancient amphitheatre in the city of Palmyra, according to AFP. The killings were first reported shortly after IS seized the ancient desert city on May 21, and were some of the more than...

The Syrian army and the Lebanese Hezbollah militia said they had launched a major ground and air assault on the rebel-held Syrian city of Zabadani on Saturday and were closing in on insurgents holed up inside. The army, with its Shi'ite ally Hezbollah, has long sought to wrest control of...

Egyptian warplanes killed 25 Islamist militants in North Sinai on Saturday, security sources said, as the Egyptian president visited the province after a major escalation of the conflict there. The sources said the air strikes hit militant targets near the town of Sheikh Zuweid,...

Tunisian President Beji Caid Essebsi declared a state of emergency on Saturday to give his government more powers following an Islamic militant attack on a beach hotel, where 38 foreign tourists, mostly Britons, were killed. Tunisia's emergency law temporarily gives the government more...

 The Syrian regime army and its allied militia have launched a major assault on the rebel-held Syrian city of Zabadani, the Lebanese Shiite group Hezbollah television station said on Saturday while activists reported an offensive launched by rebels on Friday to liberate Zabadani. Zaman...

Saudi-led air strikes killed at least 16 people in Yemen on Friday, the country's dominant Houthi militia said, and the European Union and United States appealed for a pause in the war to enable aid deliveries to stricken civilians. An Arab coalition has been bombarding...

An explosion at a mosque in Syria's Idlib province on Friday killed at least 25 members of the Al-Qaeda-linked Nusra Front, the British-based Observatory group said. The blast in the town of Ariha in northwestern Syria went off as members of the Nusra Front gathered at the mosque for iftar, the...

A year and half of nuclear talks between Iran and major powers were creeping towards the finish line on Friday as negotiators wrestled with sticking points including questions about Tehran's past atomic research. Iran is in talks with the United States and five other powers -...

 ISIS has foiled a serious coup attempt aimed at deposing its leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, according to a report published after the extremist group allegedly executed a top official in Mosul. “For the first ever there has been an attempt to depose Abu Bakr al-Baghadi,” Alaraby Aljadeed...

Syrian government forces carried out heavy air strikes on rebel positions in and around the northern city of Aleppo on Friday, aiming to repel a major Islamist-led offensive on areas controlled by President Bashar al-Assad. Thursday's attack, the most intense insurgent offensive in Aleppo in...

The French government rejected an aslyum request from Wikileaks' Julian Assange on Friday (Jul 3), saying he did not face "immediate danger". "France has received the letter from Mr. Assange. An in-depth review shows that in view of the legal and material elements of Mr Assange's situation,...

Tunisian Prime Minister Habib Essid told the BBC on Friday that police took too long to react to last week's jihadi attack that killed 38 people, mostly Britons. "The time of the reaction - this is the problem," Essid told the British broadcaster. Police had been "blocked everywhere," he added....

(Translation by Yusra Ahmed) An official diplomatic Saudi document published on WikiLeaks shows that Russia had practiced intimidation against Ban Ki-moon, the Secretary-General of the United Nations, if he attended the conference of the Group of Friends of the Syrian People (“the Friends'...

The United States is seeing signs that new efforts to draw Sunni tribesmen into Iraq's battle against Islamic State may be taking root at a military base near the fallen capital of Sunni-dominated Anbar province, U.S. officials say. A U.S. defense officials told Reuters the...