U.S. and coalition forces targeted ISIS Friday with 16 airstrikes in Iraq and six in Syria, the U.S. military said in a statement Saturday. In Iraq, one strike hit a checkpoint for ISIS and also destroyed a storage container near Al-Qaim, according to the statement. Striking a checkpoint is...

Four rebel groups, including al-Qaeda Syria wing, operating in the southern region have formed their own version of Fatah Army, according to video statement issued Saturday, a move may set the alarm bells of Syrian regime as the united rebel formations have inflicted humiliating defeats on...

Syria's best-known mosaic museum in the northern rebel-held town of Maaret al-Numan has been seriously damaged in a regime barrel bomb attack, according to archaeological experts. The Association for the Protection of Syrian Archaeology said the museum "suffered serious damage caused by two...

A Palestinian from Syria was killed and another man wounded in an armed clash in the Beddawi refugee camp in the north Lebanon city of Tripoli overnight, the state-run National News Agency reported Friday. The man was identified as Abu Yasser, a refugee who came to Lebanon after fleeing the...

Gunmen from the Somali Islamist group al-Shabab killed at least eight officers in a raid on a police station near the capital, police and the militants said on Saturday. "Al-Shabab killed eight of my colleagues and took three of our cars," Major Abdikadir Hussein, a police officer, told...

An Israeli civilian was killed and another wounded in the occupied West Bank on Friday in an attack apparently carried out by a Palestinian gunman, a hospital spokeswoman and security forces said. Police and the military said the attack took place near the Jewish settlement of Dolev in the...

A well-informed source told Zaman al-Wasl that key rebel groups operating in the Syrian south are planning to form their own version of Fatah Army, the powerful alliance north Syria that took full control of Idlib province in the last two months. The alliance will include Nusra Front, Ahrar...

Five people have been killed and 15 others have been injured in a barrel bomb attack allegedly carried out by Bashar al-Assad regime forces in Aleppo’s Maadi district, a civil defense official said Friday. "The civil defense squad also pulled out a number of injured people from several...

At least six people were killed and 21 others were injured in several separate explosions in the Iraqi capital of Baghdad and the eastern province of Diyala late Friday, security sources said. One person was killed and two others were injured when a bomb placed in a vehicle carrying a Sunni...

 WikiLeaks is in the process of publishing more than 500,000 Saudi diplomatic documents to the Internet, the transparency website said Friday, a move that echoes its famous release of US State Department cables in 2010, AP reported.  WikiLeaks said in a statement that it has already...

Syrian insurgents say they have begun a campaign to capture full control of the divided city of Aleppo, Syria's most populous city before it become a main battleground in its four-year-old civil war. Neither side has been able to control Syria's main commercial hub, 50 km from Turkey, since...

The Syrian Coalition’s political committee decided to form a fact-finding committee to look into reports of ethnic cleansing in the town of Tal Abyad and the surrounding villages during a meeting held on Thursday. The committee is composed of a number of political committee members,...

Representatives of some of Syria's leading pro-government tribes Friday rejected support from Jordan's King Abdullah II against ISIS, accusing him of backing "terrorists." Their comments came after the Jordanian monarch, in a meeting with tribal leaders in his country, pledged to support tribes...

U.S. and coalition forces conducted 13 air strikes targeting ISIS in Iraq on Thursday and 11 strikes against the militant group in Syria, the U.S. military said Friday. In Syria, forces focused on ISIS's crude oil-collection points, as attacking "revenue generation activities remains a priority...

President Vladimir Putin reaffirmed Russia's support for Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad on Friday and said he opposed any use of external force to try to end the Syrian civil war. Putin showed no sign of wavering in his policy of trying to shield Assad from pressure from the West in a 4...

(Translation by Yusra Ahmed) Sources reported to Zaman al-Wasl that Syrian regime’s militias demand money and bribery from Palestinian people to let them crossing barriers of the Syrian regime to reach to Turkey via Aleppo’s and Idlib countryside.  Sources mentioned that cost for...

An imam in the Iraqi ministry of religious affairs has said the Islamic State group has banned extra evening prayers during Ramadan in Mosul because it considers them heresy. Shiekh Saadoun al-Nuaimi told the Kurdish news agency, BasNews: "IS religious police have banned tarawih prayers...

Gathered at a hilltop in the Israeli-held Golan Heights, a group of Druze sheikhs look through binoculars at the Syrian village of Hader, surrounded by Islamist fighters. They fear their brethren are in imminent danger. Intense battles this week have left Syria's al Qaeda branch, the Nusra...

Russia said it has made some suggestions on how blame could be determined for chemical weapons attacks in war-torn Syria and will discuss the issue on Friday with the United States, which is pushing for the creation of a team of U.N. investigators. The United States gave Russia...

The U.S. effort to build a moderate Syrian opposition force that can stand up to Islamic State rebels is moving more slowly than expected due to complications vetting volunteers and bringing them out of Syria for training, the Pentagon said on Thursday. Army Colonel Steve Warren, a Defense...