An Egyptian security official says authorities arrested two top leaders of the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood - once the country's most influential political group - after two years on the run. The official says Abdel-Rahman al-Bar, the group's top religious cleric, and Mahmoud Ghozlan, the...
Syrian Coalition's spokesman said every crime carried out by Assad’s air force is a direct result of the UN Security Council’s failure to protect civilians by enforcing safe zones that could have saved tens of thousands of lives over the past four years. “It is absolutely necessary that...
At least four people were killed when dozens of tents at a Syrian refugee camp in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley caught fire on Monday, Reuters said. Security sources initially said six people were killed. The witnesses who were in the camp said that four people including three children...
Turkey has lost control of its borders by opening them to Syrian refugees and been isolated on the world stage by meddling in the affairs of its neighbors, its main opposition leader said in an interview. Kemal Kilicdaroglu, head of the secularist Republican People's Party (CHP), said Turkey's...
Islamist rebels including Nusra Front on monday have thwarted Islamic State attack on Sheikh Reeh village in northern Aleppo, killing more than 20 fighters, activists said. The surprise attack of ISIS, which started on Sunday by capturing areas close to a border crossing with Turkey, has set...
Islamic State militants drove a tank rigged with explosives into a base south of the Iraqi city of Samarra on Monday, killing 38 policemen, military and police sources said. A further 46 people were wounded in the attack on the Muthanna bases in an area from which security forces and Shi'ite...
Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- “This is the forth square of Tadmor prison, the first door on right is the entrance to room where we used to wash our clothes, the next door is its exit, the door on the other wall most likely the one leads to dormitory 11 and the wall in the middle...
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan has vowed to punish the editor of a newspaper which published video footage it said showed the MIT state intelligence agency helping send weapons to Syria. The Cumhuriyet newspaper published footage on its website on Friday which it said showed gendarmerie...
Warplanes from a Saudi-led coalition launched air strikes on Monday against Yemen's Houthi militia positions in the north, center and south of the country, residents said. Saudi planes and artillery bombed the Iran-allied group's northern stronghold province of Saada, which borders the...
The leader of France's far right National Front party said on Sunday that a visit to Egypt to meet with the country's religious and political leaders had no effect on her views on Arab and Muslim immigration to France. Since taking over from her father and becoming head of the National Front,...
Syria’s economy minister was married Saturday to a leading television actress, media reports said. Humam al-Jazairy wed Dima Qandalaft and the two held a relatively low-key wedding party at a Damascus hotel, with a small number of family members and Qandalaft’s acting colleagues on hand....
The anti-ISIS coalition will meet in Paris Tuesday after a series of shock battlefield gains by the jihadis, with Iraq under pressure to step up its fight by being more inclusive of the Sunni minority. The main focus of the meeting will be the crisis in Iraq, where ISIS seized the city of Ramadi...
(The Daily Star)- A former Druze rebel commander in the suburbs of Damascus was killed in a car accident this weekend in Austria, his friends said. They said Hussam Dib was en route to Germany when the accident occurred. Supporters of the uprising against the Syrian regime praised Dib...
ISIS Sunday declared “war” on the powerful Libya Dawn militia alliance that controls Tripoli and claimed a suicide bombing that killed five of its fighters. The dawn blast in northwest Libya is the latest in a series of attacks by ISIS in the politically divided North African country,...
In his battle against militant Islam, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi is relying not just on bomber planes and soldiers but on white-turbaned clerics from Al-Azhar, Egypt's 1,000-year-old center for Islamic learning. He wants clerics to counter radicalism in the classroom....
Translation by Yusra Ahmed The Republican Guard of Syrian regime announce forming “Coast Shield Brigade”, calling for youth to apply, with salaries of 40 thousand Syrian pounds, pro-regime news feeds said.. The announcement to call for joining the brigade was released by the office of...
At least 25 people have been killed by a fuel tank explosion in the Syrian town of Qamishli. The explosion is reported by state television to have killed at least 25 including children and wounded 30, in the predominately Kurdish northeastern town. Juan Mohammed, a Kurdish official in the...
ISIS fighters advanced against rival insurgents in northern Syria Sunday, capturing areas close to a border crossing with Turkey, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. The fighters captured the town of Soran Azaz and two nearby villages after clashes with other rebels, the...
Syrian air force raids on Saturday killed at least 136 civilians, including 7 women and 14 children, as government extended its intense aerial campaign against rebel-held areas throughout Syria mostly in in the northern province of Aleppo, a monitoring group said. The first air force raid on a...
Six world powers have agreed on a way to restore U.N. sanctions on Iran if the country breaks the terms of a future nuclear deal, clearing a major obstacle to an accord ahead of a June 30 deadline, Western officials told Reuters. The new understanding on a U.N. sanctions...
