Security guards at Istanbul  Police Department  in Vatan Street returned fire on two armed attackers Wednesday, killing one, while the other was caught soon after, said Istanbul Governor  Vasip Sahin. A female attacker, carrying bombs and a long-barrel...

(Reuters) - A unit of Houthi rebels and allies backed by tanks pushed into central Aden, the main foothold of fighters loyal to President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi, witnesses said on Wednesday, despite a week of air strikes by Saudi-led coalition forces. The alliance of mainly Sunni Gulf...

Fighters proclaiming allegiance to Islamic State seized most of a vast camp for Palestinian refugees on the outskirts of Damascus on Wednesday, a bid to capture the group's first major foothold close to President Bashar al-Assad's seat of power. Islamic State fighters already control...

A group of Syrian opposition fighters called the "Southern Front" have taken control of the Nasib border crossing along the Syrian border with Jordan, the rebel group announced Wednesday. According to a statement, the opposition fighters seized the border gate in Nasib town in southern...

Syria's Islamist rebels, who captured northern city of Idlib last Saturday, said number of procedures were taken to secure the Christian community in the captured city.   Rebel Commanders of Ahrar al-Sham movement told Zaman al-Wasl that Fatah Army, an alliance of Islamist...

Damascus (AFP) - Syria's government, presiding over an economy ravaged by war and facing dwindling foreign currency reserves, is taking new measures to slash imports and prop up exports. Importers require government licences that allow them to request a favourable exchange rate at the...

The al Qaeda-linked Nusra Front indicated on Wednesday that a Syrian city captured from the government in recent days would be ruled according to Islamic sharia law but the group would not seek to monopolize power there. Nusra Front's leader, Abu Mohamad al-Golani, also said...

   Islamic State fighters on Wednesday have seized control of the Yarmouk Palestinian refugee camp in southern Damascus, AFP reported.

Ahrar al-Sham Islamic Movement, in statement posted online, said number of Syrian regime soldiers were killed after a successful operation carried out late on Tuesday in the Southern suburbs of Damascus.   The key  Islamist  rebel group said it had planted mines...

(Middle East Eye)- Hours after the Iraqi prime minister announced the 'liberation' of Tikrit on Tuesday, US officials said Islamic State group still control parts of the city. "Parts of the city remain under (IS's) control and there is still work to be done," Major Kim Michelsen,...

LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The deaths of three Red Cross and Red Crescent workers in unrelated attacks in Mali, Yemen and Syria within hours of each other this week were condemned as "profoundly shocking and unacceptable" by the organization's head on Tuesday. Elhadj As...

(Reuters) - More than 25,000 foreign fighters from some 100 countries are linked to al Qaeda and Islamic State, with Syria and Iraq comprising a "veritable international finishing school for extremists," United Nations experts reported to the U.N. Security Council. The experts, who...

(Reuters) - Six world powers and  Iran  will meet again later on Wednesday in a bid to reach an outline accord reining in Tehran's nuclear program, after failing to agree crucial details such as the lifting of U.N. sanctions by a Tuesday deadline. The negotiators ended talks...

(Reuters) - An air strike on Yemen's Red Sea port of Hodaida destroyed a dairy factory on Tuesday night, killing 23 workers, medical sources said, in what appeared to be one of the biggest cases of civilian deaths in a Saudi-led campaign against Houthi militia. The operation by ...

(Reuters) - Oil futures edged lower on Wednesday amid speculation that a last-minute deal over Iran's nuclear program would be reached that could allow more Iranian crude into world markets. Talks between  Iran  and six world powers to settle a dispute around Tehran's...

(Reporting by Mohamed Al Hussein;  Translation  by Yusra Ahmed)   Fighters of The Democratic Union Party (PYD) have expelled many families from their houses in Hasakah countryside, including a family of a commander in the F ree Syrian Army, who was killed by...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Tuesday that the  hostage situation that took place at an  Istanbul courthouse was "no minor issue." "This is an incident that we can learn from and that needs to be taken seriously," Erdogan said. The...

(Translation by Yusra Ahmed) The Syrian Human Rights Committee (SHRC) confirmed that 3 Palestinian sisters died under torture by Syrian intelligence in Branch 235, known as Palestine branch .      The SHRC reported that Amal Saad Eddin (24...

At least three detainees belong to Syria's minority Christian community were identified among leaked mass torture photos, according to the Syrian Association for the Missing and Prisoners of Conscience.   Syrian Christian community with total population of 1.75 million has faced...

International donors have pledged $3.8 billion to tackle the humanitarian crisis in  Syria , United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said at a summit in the Kuwaiti capital on Tuesday. The United Nations is seeking to help 18 million people inside Syria and those...