Security forces on Sunday arrested a Lebanese man accused of being a cleric and recruiting agent for the extremist Islamic State jihadist group, a security source told AFP. "Ibrahim al-Barakat was arrested early on Sunday and is accused of being a religious jurist for Daesh in the northern...

Tunisia said Sunday security measures have already been taken to protect Jewish pilgrims at a religious festival next week on the island of Djerba, after Israel warned of "concrete threats". Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Saturday that Israel had learned of "concrete...

Ammar al-Shahbander, long-standing Chief of Mission in Iraq for the Institute for War & Peace Reporting (IWPR), was killed last night, May 2, in a car bomb attack in the busy commercial area of Karrada in Baghdad. It is believed that up to 17 people were killed in twin bomb...

Dozens of people have been killed in Syrian air strikes on the cities of Idlib and Aleppo and the suburbs of Damascus, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. At least three people were killed while 16 others were injured when Syrian helicopters dropped seven barrel bombs on a...

Syria's army cut the last main supply route for a rebel bastion east of Damascus Sunday, further tightening a crippling siege on the area, a monitor and state media said. "The regime has cut off the last main road for rebels leading out of Eastern Ghouta," the main opposition stronghold in...

(Reuters) - Local fighters battling the rebel Houthi militia in Yemen's port of Aden stormed areas around the airport on Sunday in an operation supervised by the Saudi-led coalition, which also provided air support, the group's spokesman said. "Special forces from the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime air strikes on a school in rebel-held Aleppo killed At least 10 people, including 5 pupils, in second assault on Aleppo schools in 10 days, activists said. The Educational center of Seif al-Dawla neighborhood in Aleppo was stormed by two barrel bombs Sunday...

(Reporting by Mohamed Al Hussein; Translation by Yusra Ahmed) Hasan Shandi, Kurdish opposition figure, last Friday has appealed to the Kurdish community and human rights organizations for seizing his father’s house and farm in Efrin in Aleppo countryside by the Democratic Union party...

Iran's deputy foreign minister said Tehran will not let regional powers jeopardize its security interests in Yemen, Tasnim news agency reported, in the strongest acknowledgement yet of Iranian involvement in the Arabian peninsula. Iran has denied accusations from Western and...

(Reuters) - Egyptian authorities are using the courts to stifle journalism, Amnesty International said on Sunday in a report that listed 18 reporters and media workers jailed and dozens more facing criminal investigations. The New York-based rights group said several...

 A photo collects senior Syrian Islamist commanders has sparked a barrage of questions on social media as rebels close to overthrow Bashar al-Assad for the first time in four-year fighting. Jaysh al-Islam commander, Zahran Alloush, accompanied by commander of Ahrar al-Sham Movement,...

London (AFP) - Prince William's wife Kate gave birth to a baby girl on Saturday, sparking celebrations in Britain for the royal family's new fourth in line to the throne. The beaming couple left the hospital carrying the newborn princess in front of hundreds of screaming well-wishers and amid...

The leader of the Islamic State (Isis), Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, remains incapacitated due to suspected spinal damage and is being treated by two doctors who travel to his hideout from the group’s stronghold of Mosul, the Guardian has learned. More than two months after being injured in a US...

 Qatar said on Saturday it was hosting a dialogue this weekend between Afghan officials and representatives of the Taliban insurgents on ways to end the country's long war. Taliban's official spokesman said the insurgents were sending an eight-member delegation to a conference in Doha...

(Reuters) - A French patrol ship rescued 217 migrants from three small boats that had run into trouble off the coast of Libya on Saturday, the maritime police said in a statement. The Commandant Birot helped several dozen people in distress and intercepted two suspected people smugglers,...

AZRAQ REFUGEE CAMP, Jordan (AP) — A year after opening, a camp in Jordan billed as an improved model for sheltering Syrian refugees has a mixed record: Azraq offers safety and a sense of order, with its close to 10,000 prefab shelters arranged in tidy rows, but refugees say life is...

 The Syrian capital's tiny tourist train is returning puffs of hope to a city encircled by war with short trips to the greener suburbs of Damascus. The train, whose large yellow wagon and leather seats can hold 100 people, had stopped running since the 2011 outbreak...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Despite of Syrian denial of being responsible for two car bombs which killed 56 people in a Turkish border town of Reyhanli in May 2013, Zaman al-Wasl has obtained a conclusive evidence approved that Syrian intelligence who stood behind the attack. A confidential intelligence...

Kuwait City (AFP) - Kuwait on Friday arrested a former opposition lawmaker for alleging Iran was pressuring the oil-rich emirate to change the crown prince, the government and relatives said. The interior ministry said Waleed al-Tabtabai had been "arrested on the orders of the...

Free Syrian Army mourned Friday a prominent commander reportedly killed by Syrian forces on Aleppo's battlefront northern Syria. Division 16, rebel group active in Aleppo city, said its field commander Khaled al-Hayani was killed during an attack launched by the group on government-held...