Abu Emara Battalions on Tuesday said it has assassinated a senior commander in al-Quds Brigade in Aleppo city. The key rebel group that active in northern province of Aleppo said Samer Hamisho, Palestinian militant, was involved in torture crimes when he was working in the disreputable Tadmur...

 (The Daily Star)- The ex-wife of ISIS chief Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, who is formally under the custody of Lebanese authorities, allegedly gave birth at one of Lebanon's military hospitals, pan-Arab daily Al-Hayat reported Tuesday. The daily cited judicial sources as saying that the that...

Activists say Kurdish fighters and their allies have captured an ISIS military base in northern Syria, AP reported. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a British-based activist group, and Kurdish activist Mustafa Bali said Kurdish fighters from the People's Protection...

Syrian state media praised Druze villagers in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights Tuesday for attacking an Israeli military ambulance they said was carrying two insurgents from a group fighting President Bashar al-Assad. The Israeli army said one of the men in the ambulance was killed as a...

The head of the Internal Security Force’s Information Branch vowed to block attempts to usher Lebanon’s largest prison back to an era of impunity, five months after security forces first stormed the notorious facility. “We will not allow a return to the emirate that is Roumieh [prison] after...

Australia is close to confirming the reported death in Iraq of two home-grown militants who shot to infamy last year after being photographed holding the severed heads of Syrian soldiers, Foreign Minister Julie Bishop said on Tuesday. Australia issued arrest warrants for suspected Australian...

ISIS has terminated most of Syrians who work in oil facilities it control in Iraq, saying the hiring priority is for locals, a decision reflects powerful leadership of Iraqis inside the radical group that controls swaths of territory in Iraq and Syria, sources said. Islamic State that...

(By Abdullah al-Ghadawi; Translation by Yusra Ahmed) Many of politicians and military experts think that Kurds’ goals of the Syrian revolution are different from the Arabs’, but still they do not feel secure and their future is unclear amid the chaos in the region. Zaman al-Wasl met Haron...

A wounded Syrian was killed on Monday when Israeli Druze attacked an Israeli military ambulance taking him to hospital for treatment, police said. "A crowd attacked an ambulance with stones near Majdal Shams on the Golan Heights," that was transporting two wounded Syrians, a police...

Syrian Kurdish fighters have chased Islamic State militants from a key base north of the jihadists' stronghold city of Raqa, according to a monitoring group. The Kurdish People's Protection Units -- with US-led air support -- took complete control of the Liwa (Brigade) 93 base on Monday, the...

More than 2,000 Syrian refugees who had fled into Turkey crossed back on Monday, security sources and witnesses told Reuters, as a gate reopened a few days after Islamic State militants were ousted from the frontier town of Tel Abyad by Syrian Kurds. Amid tight security on the...

A U.S. air strike on Mosul, Iraq, killed an Islamic State fighter linked to the 2012 attack on a U.S. diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya, the Pentagon said on Monday. The June 15 air strike killed Ali Awni al-Harzi, whom the Pentagon said was a "person of interest" in the Benghazi attack,...

Kurdish-led forces advanced on Monday deep into territory in Syria held by Islamic State, showing new momentum after they unexpectedly swiftly seized a border crossing from the jihadists last week. The Kurds, aided by U.S.-led air strikes and smaller Syrian rebel groups, have pushed to within 7...

U.S.-led coalition forces targeted Islamic State militants with seven air strikes in Syria and 22 in Iraq on Sunday, the combined joint task force leading the operations said in a statement. In Syria, five of the strikes were staged near the Turkish border town of Tel Abyad, where Kurdish...

(Translation by Yusra Ahmed) A WikiLeaks document highlighted Saudi Arabia's effort to support the Syrian Revolution by communicating with different parties and countries including the Vatican to encourage Christians to participate in the revolution. The WikiLeaks document was issued by the...

German authorities have released Al Jazeera journalist Ahmed Mansour, who had been detained at Berlin airport at the request of the Egyptian government. Accompanied by his lawyers, Mansour greeted his supporters after his release on Monday, and thanked the German court for its decision. "I...

Israeli Druze blocked an Israeli army ambulance they believed was transporting wounded Syrian rebels Monday, local authorities said, a rare confrontation underscoring Druze concern for brethren caught up in the civil war next door. The Druze are an Arab minority that practice an offshoot of...

A key rebel alliance in Syrian south said in statement issued Saturday the newly-formed Fatah Army in the South is not a national rebel group because it seeks to implement a suspicious agenda on Syrian people which wants to eliminate their free will. The moderate rebel group in Daraa province,...

Islamic State has planted mines and bombs in the ancient part of the central Syrian city of Palmyra, home to Roman-era ruins, a group monitoring the war said on Sunday. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said it was not immediately clear whether the group was preparing to destroy the...

At least eight policemen and civilians were wounded on Monday when explosions hit two houses in Egypt's El-Arish, the provincial capital of the North Sinai region, security and medical sources said. Militants planted two bombs in two adjacent houses, both inhabited by police, the...