At least 24 people, including 19 children, were killed in the eastern countryside of Daraa province when regime fired a missile on a Quranic schoolroom, activists said Tuesday. The missile attack on the town of al-Ghara al-Sharqiya has targeted a seminar for Quran memorization, what made most...

The First Army, key unit in Southern Front, announced on Tuesday a new battle against regime forces to take control of last army posts in Quneitra province. 'Al-Jaysh al-Awal' said in statement four rebel groups joined its operations room to end Army presence in Quneitra near the Occupied Golan...

Ten rebel groups active in the western countryside of Damascus have merged in new alliance, seeking to capture a territory links between Daraa, Quneitra and the capital, according to statement issued Tuesday. Hermon Army, the newly rebel group, said it has taken control of Telal al-Homr area...

ISIS has claimed responsibility for an attack on a checkpoint in central Tunisia that killed three policemen, according to a statement carried on a jihadi social media account used by the group. The policemen were killed in clashes in Sidi Bouzid during an attack Monday in which militants tried...

Turkey's prime minister said on Tuesday he would not tolerate any attempt to undermine President Tayyip Erdogan's authority during the AK Party's talks to form a coalition government. Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu has said his ruling AK Party, which lost its overall majority for the first time...

A Libyan militant group appeared to deny reports that a U.S. strike had killed veteran Algerian Islamist Mokhtar Belmokhtar, in a statement published on Twitter. Libya's government said on Sunday that Mokhtar, blamed for a deadly assault on an Algerian gas field and a major...

An Egyptian court sentenced former President Mohamed Mursi to a life sentence of 25 years in prison on Tuesday in a case related to conspiring with foreign groups. The general guide of the Muslim Brotherhood Mohamed Badie was also sentenced to 25 years in jail in the same case. In total, 17...

Al Qaeda in Yemen said its leader Nasser al-Wuhayshi was killed in a U.S. bombing, in a statement posted online. "We in Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula mourn to our Muslim nation ... that Abu Baseer Nasser bin Abdul Karim al-Wuhayshi, God rest his soul, passed away in an American strike which...

Islam Army, key rebel group active east of Damascus, has waged a new missile attack on government-held neighborhoods of Syria's capital, activists said Tuesday. The Katyusha rockets have stormed Mezzeh 86 , a predominantly Alawite neighborhood. The shelling also reached al-Maliki district, few...

n">Amnesty International criticized on Monday what it said was a "dismal" global response to the plight of Syrian refugees and urged neighboring countries struggling to cope with the influx of refugees to lift "deeply troubling" measures designed to keep them out. The human...

Syrian Kurdish-led forces said they had captured a town at the Turkish border from Islamic State on Monday, driving it away from the frontier in an advance backed by U.S.-led air strikes that has thrust deep into the jihadists' Syria stronghold, Reuters said. The capture of Tel Abyad by the...

The Syrian opposition's interim government on Monday has dismissed the Chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff, Brigadier General Abdul Karim al-Ahmed, source told Zaman al-Wasl. The interim government of Syrian National Coalition said Brigadier Ahmed Berri to conduct the affairs of the Staff pending...

 Hundreds of Syrian and Iraqi refugees, including women and young children, have staged a protest on the eastern Greek island of Lesvos, demanding better living conditions, the faster processing of their registration and to be housed separately from Afghan arrivals after a fight broke out...

U.S. and coalition forces launched 16 air strikes targeting Islamic State militants in nine Iraqi cities on Sunday, the U.S. military said. The Iraqi strikes destroyed Islamic State vehicles, buildings, tunnel systems, bunkers and weaponry near cities including Makhmur, Mosul, Ramadi, Sinjar...

More than 23 civilians were killed by heavy insurgent shelling on government-controlled areas of the Syrian city of Aleppo, including near a mosque where children were taking religious lessons, Reuters reported Monday. State-run media said heavy shelling from Aleppo districts under the control...

  The Syrian Kurdish YPG militia said Monday it had encircled the ISIS-controlled town of Tal Abyad, the nearest border town to the militant's de facto capital of Raqqa city, Reuters said. YPG spokesman Redur Xelil said the militia had surrounded the town along the Turkish border, pushing...

After four years living in the capital of Isil's caliphate, Hassan's life story reads like the plot of a James Bond film. But the scars on his body and the photos he carries of murdered friends show his ordeal is all too real. Hassan, who asks for his full name not to be used for fear of...

Iran's deputy foreign minister for Middle East affairs will discuss Yemen's conflict at a meeting of a pan-Islamic body in Saudi Arabia, the Iranian Mehr news agency reported on Monday. Hossein Amir Abdollahian will join other officials from the Islamic world at a one-day extraordinary...

(By Lama Shammas; Translation by Yusra Ahmed) The Syrian community in Istanbul celebrated on Friday the opening of “Pages”, the first Arabic library in the city which contains wide variety of Arabic, Turkish, English and French books. Samer al-Qadiri, an artist and one of the library’s...

 Number of young men of Syria's Druze minority, who joined regime army to figh rebels south Syria, have quitted conscription saying regime has breached a promise to not get them involved in fight out of Sweida province, their historic stronghold, activists said Sunday. Local activists also...