A suicide bomber in a car blew himself up at a checkpoint near Libya's Misrata city on Thursday, killing two guards, state news agency LANA quoted a military source as saying. The attack was against forces from the port city whose troops are allied with a self-declared government...
Standing guard at his frontline post, Libyan soldier Mohammed Abu Shager can see where Islamic State militants are holed up with their heavy weaponry less than a kilometer away. The militants have effectively taken over former dictator Muammar Gaddafi's home city of Sirte as...
Tunisia's Foreign Ministry says 60 of its citizens have been released from detention in Libya, leaving more than 100 still under arrest. On Saturday, Tunisia's consul in Tripoli, Brahim Rezgui, said that 172 Tunisians had been arrested by authorities. Differing reasons have been given for...
ISIS controls more than half of Syria's territory after its westwards advance into the central city of Palmyra, an activist group monitoring the war said Thursday. The militant group, which already controlled wide tracts of land in Syria's north and east, captured the ancient city late on...
Zahran Alloush, Islam Army's commander, has appeared for the second time in Istanbul in two weeks as he was attending Islamic Dialogue Forum on Wednesday. The head of main rebel group in Eastern Ghouta suburbs near Damascus, has raised the ire of his rivals from both sides, regime and...
The Syrian government extended its intense aerial campaign against rebel-held areas in the Old City of Aleppo on Wednesday, conducting a series of airstrikes that killed a family of 7 members, a monitoring group said. The Syria Network for Human Rights said 7 victims including 3 children and 2...
(Reuters)- ISIS militants stormed the Syrian city of Palmyra Wednesday, seizing it from government forces in fierce fighting as civilians fled and Syria's antiquities chief called on the world to save its ancient monuments. Syrian state television said pro-government fighters withdrew...
Jihadis from ISIS took control of the northern sector of Syria's historic city of Palmyra Wednesday, activists said. "ISIS fighters seized the northern parts of the city, which amount to a third of Palmyra," said Rami Abdel Rahman, head of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. "Regime...
Malek Jandali may only have been alive for four decades but the award-winning composer insists he feels ancient, having revived some of the oldest melodies from his war-torn Syrian homeland. "I'm 8,000 years old," said the pianist, in the middle of a world tour he hopes will spread...
Key rebel group in Eastern Ghouta suburbs near Damascus, Jaysh al-Islam, has tightened the noose on 39 Brigade after three days of fierce fighting, taking control 3 checkpoints, rebel commander said Wednesday. Islam Army's spokesman, Islam Allouh, told Zaman al-Wasl that powerful air...
Fatah Army keep an eye on Bashar al-Assad's last stronghold in Idlib province, massing troops to capture mountainous town of Ariha, a day after the takeover of al-Mastouma camp. Ariha has been witnessing fierce clashes since three weeks on the enclaves of the town, but rebels'...
Kurdish forces backed by U.S.-led air strikes are pressing an attack on Islamic State in northeastern Syria that has killed at least 170 members of the jihadist group this week, a Kurdish official and a monitoring group said on Wednesday. The official said Kurdish YPG fighters and allied...
Jihadis from ISIS entered the northern city limits of ancient Palmyra Wednesday, seizing a state security building after intense fighting, activists said. "The jihadis are once again in the north of Tadmur, after taking over the state security building," Rami Abdel Rahman, director of the...
Airstrikes by a U.S.-led coalition against ISIS in northeastern Syria have killed around 170 jihadis in the past 48 hours, activists said Tuesday. "The jihadis were killed in the past 48 hours in the province of Hassakeh, nearly all of them in very intense airstrikes by the international...
(Reporting by Mohamed al-Hussein; Translation by Yusra Ahmed) Dozens of villages in the region of Jabal abdul-Aziz witnessed on Monday heavy displacement as the clashes between forces of the Democratic Union Party (PYD) and the Islamic State (ISIS) have become too near, added to airstrikes of...
The Syrian government extended its intense aerial campaign against rebel-held areas of the northern cities of Aleppo and Idlib on Tuesday, conducting a series of airstrikes that killed at least 40 people, including children and women, activists and monitoring group said. The Syria Network for...
Extremist groups have forced their laws on the people of northern and eastern Syria, severely restricting freedoms and imposing harsh sentences for disobedience. The Islamic State group's extreme interpretation of Islamic teaching holds sway in large areas of the country, including its...
Syria's President Bashar Assad Tuesday praised Iran's support as a "key pillar" in his fight against rebels, as a third Iranian official visited Damascus in less than a week. The visits come after several military losses for the Syrian government and as Tehran negotiates a key nuclear deal with...
An Emirati court has jailed five Qatari intelligence officers for insulting the leadership of the United Arab Emirates, local media said Tuesday. The State Security court sentenced Ali al-Hammadi, who is the only defendant in custody, to 10 years in jail, and fined him one million dirhams...
Jordan Tuesday rejected Syrian accusations that "terrorists" were being given military training on its soil, insisting Amman favored a political solution to its neighbor's conflict. The Syrian foreign ministry, in a protest letter sent to the United Nations Monday, alleged Jordan "provides...
