A video purportedly made by Islamic State and posted on social media sites on Sunday appeared to show militants shooting and beheading about 30 Ethiopian Christians in  Libya . Reuters was not able to verify the authenticity of the video but the killings resemble past violence...

(Reuters) - The leader of Yemen's Iranian-allied Houthi militia accused  Saudi Arabia  on Sunday of plotting to seize the country, in a fiery speech suggesting he was in no mood to compromise despite more than three weeks of Saudi-led bombing. Saudi Arabia's goal is "the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 26 people have been killed on Sunday in Syrian regime air strikes on rebel-held neighborhoods and towns of Aleppo and Daraa, activists and monitoring groups said. The Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR) said Syrian regime's barrel bombs and missiles have...

Key Islamist groups , in a statement issued Saturday, condemned a UN report accusing Ahrar al-Sham, Aknaf Bait al-Maqdes and Islam Army (Jaishu al-Islam) of “Sexual Violence” in Syria.

Iran 's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei told military commanders on Sunday the United States had created the "myth" of nuclear weapons to portray Iran as a threat, hardening his rhetoric before nuclear negotiations resume this week. Khamenei, the highest authority...

(Reuters) - As many as 700 people are feared dead after a boat carrying migrants capsized off the Libyan coast overnight, in one of the worst disasters seen in the Mediterranean migrant crisis, officials said on Sunday. Twenty eight people were rescued in the incident, which happened in...

 Yemen's government has rejected a four-point peace plan for the country that Iran submitted to the United Nations, a spokesman said on Saturday. Saudi Arabia and its Sunni Arab coalition partners have been bombing Iranian-allied Houthi rebels for three weeks in order to halt...

A  United Nations  sponsored report has found that Afghanistan government officials who headed oversight of the police suppressed complaints of corruption against the force and has recommended their dismissal, according to a copy of the document seen by...

Hillary Clinton’s  video  launching her campaign for the Democratic nomination was a montage of the New America. That’s  the coalition Barack Obama brought to power  in 2008: African-Americans, Latinos, Asian-Americans, working women, gays and lesbians, single mothers,...

(By Dr. Awad Al Sulaiman; Translation by Yusra Ahmed) “Complete destruction of insurgent-held areas in general and Aleppo in particular, supported by Suadi Arabia, Qatar, is what I demand in the name of Syrian people” Ahmad Hassoun, Syria's Grand Mufti Ahmed Badr al-Din al-Hassoun said...

 Dr. Hosam Hafez, Head of the diplomatic and foreign relations in the Syrian opposition's interim government has resigned with two staff on Saturday, sources told Zaman al-Wasl. The National Coalition's government has witnessed a high scale of resignations during the...

Thirteen people, including five Iraqi police officers, were killed and 38 others injured in separate violent incidents in Iraq, security officials said Saturday. Blasts occurred in the Iraqi capital of Baghdad and in the province of Diyala on Saturday. According to Baghdad...

The Egyptian army said Saturday that it had destroyed 69 entry points to underground tunnels in the Sinai Peninsula on the border with the Gaza Strip. Army spokesman Mohamed Samir said on Facebook that border patrol troops in Sinai had destroyed 69 entry points to underground tunnels on...

(Reuters) - A suicide bomber in Afghanistan's eastern city of Jalalabad killed 33 people and injured more than 100 on Saturday, setting off a blast outside a bank where government workers collect salaries, the city's police chief said. President Ashraf Ghani blamed Islamic State...

( Zaman Al Wasl )- Syrian activists have accused a Swedish newspaper of 'polishing the image of Bashar al-Assad,' saying Expressen interview with the tyrant is no more than a reciprocal for freeing a reporter two months ago. Assad's interview with Expressen that published on Friday has...

(By Faris al-Rifai; Translation by Yusra Ahmed)   More than 400 students of “al-Owdah School”for Syrian and Palestinian refugees in Antakya, Turkey at the brink of losing their opportunity of learning after the owner of its building threaten of closing it if the school has not paid...

Turkey will grant $200 million for reconstruction of the Gaza Strip and Palestine’s sustainable development in the span of two years, the Turkish Foreign Ministry said on Friday. According to the Foreign Ministry statement, Turkey will donate $200 million as part of its pledge made at...

An explosion in eastern Afghanistan killed at least 23 people and injured 50 others on Saturday.  Local officials said a motorbike packed with explosives exploded in front of a bank in Nangarhar province.  Afghan security forces carried out two controlled blasts shortly...

Fatah Army on Friday has thwarted an attack launched by Syrian forces on Idlib to recapture the city that fell out three weeks ago. Bashar al-Assad's forces pressed slow advances northwest of Idlib by taking control of Nahliya and Kafr Najed villages near Ariha city in an effort to...

 Iran proposed a four-point peace plan forYemen on Friday that calls for an immediate cease-fire and the formation of a unity government. In a letter sent to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, Iran's FM Javad Zarif urged the New York-based body "to get more effectively involved in...