An armed group stormed the Tunisian consulate in the Libyan capital Tripoli and kidnapped 10 staff on Friday, the Tunisian Foreign Ministry said. The ministry did not identify the armed group, but called the assault a "blatant attack on Tunisian national sovereignty and a flagrant violation of...

Six Yemenis held for more than a decade at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo have been flown to Oman for resettlement, the Pentagon said on Saturday, the latest step in President Barack Obama's slow push to close the facility. The release came a week after Defense Secretary Ash Carter said...

President Barack Obama has said American forces being sent to a new operations center in the heart of the war against Islamic State will not engage in combat, but they will do almost everything but fight to support the beleaguered Iraqi forces. U.S. defense officials say the tasks of the troops...

The Unified Command of Eastern Ghouta district near Damascus called on Nusra Front to join its alliance instead of forming 'Fatah Army in Ghouta,' according to statement issued Friday, The statement of the key rebel group in embattled Suburbs of Damascus came in response to a call by...

Saudi-led coalition air strikes killed at least six people, Yemen's state news agency Saba said on Friday, and destroyed part of Sanaa's Old City, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The raid, which began in the early hours, also injured several people, reduced five houses to rubble and damaged other...

The Syrian government says it has come through worse phases in the four-year-old conflict than the latest advances by insurgents across the country and is confident its army can hit back with the help of its allies. Western officials believe losses in recent months by President Bashar...

An Iraqi official says the body of Tareq Aziz, Saddam Hussein's former top aide who died last week in prison, is still at Baghdad International Airport under heavy security and due to be flown to Amman. The official from the Iraqi Aviation Authority said Friday that the body was supposed to be...

At least nine fighters were killed in clashes Friday between Islamic State and another Islamist force in the eastern Libyan city of Derna, a source in one group said. Fighting had first erupted in Derna - a long-time gathering point for jihadis - on Tuesday after a leader in the Islamist...

Four Westerners who posed naked on Malaysia's highest peak were Friday sentenced to three days in jail and fined for obscene behavior in a public place, news reports said. The four were among 10 foreigners who stripped naked and took photos on Mount Kinabalu on May 30. A local official has said...

Al Qaeda's Syria wing, the Nusra Front, with other three rebel groups operating in eastern Qalamoun have formed their own version of Fatah Army as fighting with ISIS enters new stage after Palmyra takeover where the hardline group is pressing hard to seize control of Syria desert and Qalamoun...

Translation by Yusra Ahmed Three serious incidents took place in the regime-loyal parts of Homs city, but they pass through without any punishment or action taken. First one was in Abassiyeh neighborhood when many armed people advance toward a barrier for the regime and shot toward guards...

By Faris al-Rifai; Translation by Yusra Ahmed Fatima Kotaish, a Syria girl, refugee in Ramtha city in Jordan, suffers of severe burns in her head for two and a half year. Fatima was burned with hot oil, when she entered quickly to her family’s tent in Zatari, and she hit the pot of boiling oil...

Members of Syria's Druze minority have helped repel a rebel attack on an army base in the south, mobilizing to confront insurgents including al Qaeda's Nusra Front who are trying to build on gains against President Bashar al-Assad. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a UK-based...

Macedonian police have detained 128 illegal migrants from Syria, Iraq and other Middle Eastern countries sheltering in five houses in a village near the border with Serbia, the Interior Ministry said on Thursday. Villagers had rented their houses to the migrants for 1,500 euros ($1,685) a...

An Egyptian court Thursday sentenced a policeman to 15 years in jail over the fatal shooting of a woman during a peaceful leftist rally, a court official said. Shaima al-Sabbagh, a 34-year-old mother of a five-year-old, was struck by birdshot in January as police dispersed a small march on the...

Hezbollah’s Loyalty to Resistance Bloc blamed the Future Movement Thursday for the deterioration of Lebanon’s state institutions. “The control, confiscation and monopolization approach the Future Movement has been practicing in government and administration over the last years, in contradiction...

Tawhid Party chief Wiam Wahhab Thursday urged Druze to form an armed force to defend themselves after at least 20 members of their community were killed by Nusra Front militants in northwest Syria. “We will not accept to sell Druze blood!” Wahhab, a former minister, said in an angry televised...

A Syrian rebel alliance said it had captured an air base from the army in southern Syria Thursday, a gain that would compound setbacks for President Bashar Assad in the area after losing a nearby military base this week. Issam al-Rayyes, spokesman for the Southern Front alliance of...

Israel's president expressed his concern to the United States on Wednesday about the fate of the Druze minority in Syria, saying around 500,000 of them were under threat from Islamist militants in an area near the Israeli border. Israel's Druze, some of whom have reached the senior echelons of...

A well-informed source said leader of key Syrian opposition, the National Coalition, has met with Zahran Alloush, Islam Army's commander and number of rebel commanders in Jordan's capital. Amman's secret meeting was organized by the Coalition in step to form a common ground  between...