Islamic State militants detonated a car bomb and then opened fire on Iraqi troops in the western province of Anbar on Thursday, killing 14 soldiers, security sources said. Iraqi government forces and their Shi'ite militia allies are hoping to recapture Anbar's provincial capital Ramadi, which...

Southern Front rebels on Wednesday seized control of al-Sarou checkpoint, one of regime's powerful strongholds in Daraa, the border city with Jordan, activists said. Early Thursday, rebels in video statement said the International Road links between Daraa province and Damascus is a military...

(Tranlation by Yusra Ahmed) A Saudi diplomatic document published on WikiLeaks revealed that As-Safir, the Lebanese newspaper was fund by the former Libyan president Muamar Gaddafi, then it was rescued by the support of an American- originally Syrian businessman. The document forwarded from...

Syrians rebels, in video statement issued Thursday, said the International Road links between the southern city of Daraa and Damascus is a military zone, warning civilians from getting close. Activists said rebels have seized parts of the city, storming the headquarters of air and military...

 Iranian state media say thousands of people have attended the funerals for eight Iranian volunteers killed in fighting against ISIS extremists in Syria, AP reported. Thursday's report by the official IRNA news agency says three of the volunteers were buried in the capital, Tehran, and the...

 By Menekse Toyay  The military agreement signed by Turkey and Qatar in December, whose details became public this month, has symbolic and material implications for security in the Gulf region. Some experts say the impetus behind the agreement were the conflicts in Iraq, Syria,...

   Syrians rebels, in video statement issued Thursday, said the International Road links between the southern city of Daraa and Damascus is a military zone, warning civilians from getting close. Activists said rebels have seized parts of the road, such gain came hours after the...

Islamic State militants in Syria have stormed government-held neighborhoods in the predominantly Kurdish northeastern city of Hassakeh, capturing several areas of the city, AP reported. Thursday's attack comes after the Islamic State group suffered several setbacks in northern Syria against...

Rebels active in southern city of Daraa announced on Wednesday a new battle to take full control of the border city with Jordan. A motivational video that circulated online by activists has shown rebels' practices, weapons and readiness for the battle of 'South Storm.' The "Southern Front",...

(Translation by Yusra Ahmed) A new saudi diplomatic document published on Wikileaks showed opinion of Abdel Aziz Bin Abdullah, son of King Abdullah and deputy of Saudi Minister of foreign affairs, talked about Haitham al-Maleh, the prominent Syrian opposition figure and mentioned his long...

   Two suicide bombers from the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) group have killed 10 Syrian soldiers in the northeastern city of Hasakeh, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Wednesday. Separately, at least 13 civilians were killed in a car bomb attack against a mosque...

The United States and its coalition allies staged nine air strikes in Iraq and Syria in the latest round of daily attacks on Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) group on Tuesday, a Command Joint Task Force statement said. Eight of the strikes were near the Iraqi cities of Bayji, Haditha,...

A suicide bomber detonated a car bomb at a gathering of Iraqi Sunni tribal leaders, killing 14 people in an attack claimed Wednesday by the Islamic State group, police said. “Fourteen people were killed and at least 24 wounded,” a police captain said of the Tuesday night bombing in the...

Iraq’s most powerful Shiite force said it is relying more heavily on elite units who fought in Syria in the battle against Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) for control of a critical Iraqi refinery and is now well placed to counter the militants’ guerrilla warfare. Iraq’s biggest refinery...

The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) seems to have minted its own currency, according to Syrian activists. Anti-ISIS activist Abu Ibrahim Raqqawi, the founder of “Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently” shared the photos of the coins on Twitter and said they would be put into use soon. The...

Islamic State group fighters have destroyed two ancient Muslim mausoleums in the historic Syrian city of Palmyra, the country's antiquities director said Tuesday. IS militants blew up the tombs of Mohammed bin Ali, a descendant of the Prophet's cousin, and Nizar Abu Bahaaeddine, a religious...

A swap deal carried out between Syrian regime and Islam Army last two weeks was behind the release of Justice Minister who was kidnapped by the key rebel group on June 9,  well-informed sources told Zaman al-Wasl. A judicial source said regime security had released 574 detainees mostly...

Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Tuesday the United States wanted to destroy entirely the Islamic republic's nuclear industry, state TV reported. "America is after destroying our nuclear industry altogether," he said. "Our negotiators' aim is to safeguard Iran's integrity...

An Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) group video released Tuesday showed the militants murdering 16 men by drowning them in a cage, decapitating them with explosives and firing a rocket-propelled grenade into a car. The video, apparently shot in Iraq's Nineveh province, was one of the most...

Islamic State urged its followers on Tuesday to escalate attacks against Christians, Shi'ites and Sunni Muslims fighting with a U.S.-led coalition against the ultra-radical group. Jihadists should turn the holy month of Ramadan, which began last week, into a time of "calamity for the infidels...