Islamic State fighters killed at least 37 people in a  Syria n village near the city of Hama overnight, a group monitoring the war said, part of a pattern of attacks by the ultra-radical force in government-held areas of western Syria. Syrian state television put the number...

Turkey's Prime Ministry has imposed a temporary broadcast ban on coverage of an ongoing hostage crisis in Istanbul. Gunmen have seized a public prosecutor at an Istanbul courthouse. Mehmet Selim Kiraz had been handling the case of Berkin Elvan, who was critically injured during...

(Reuters) - In an unusual move, an Egyptian court acquitted on Tuesday 68 people, including members of the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood, who were charged with gathering illegally and attacking security forces, judicial sources said. Authorities have cracked down hard on the Islamist...

(Reuters) - The Palestinian Authority becomes the 123rd member of the International Criminal Court on Wednesday, a major step that could move its decades-long conflict with  Israel  into a courtroom. Israel is opposed to the court, is not a member and has no plans to...

At least 55 people have been killed in Syrian regime air strikes on the rebel-held city of Idlib north of Syria  since an alliance of Islamist groups have seized the city last Saturday for the first time in Syria's civil war, activists said.   Activists said among the...

  Free Syrian Army officers have joined key I slamist rebel group in Eastern Ghouta suburbs under leadership of Zahran Alloush, commander said in video statement Monday.   Number of Syrian army defectors in a remarkable move have formed a new military council in...

 The United States pledged $507 million and Kuwait promised $500 million towards easing Syria's humanitarian crisis at an international summit in the Kuwaiti capital on Tuesday. The  United Nations , which is holding the summit, says aid is needed to help 18 million...

A U.S.-led program to train Syrian rebels to fight Islamic State militants will start in May, Turkey's Defense Minister Ismet Yilmaz was quoted as saying by the state-run Anadolu news agency on Tuesday. U.S. officials have said they plan to train about 5,000 Syrian fighters a year...

Air raids by a Saudi-led coalition again hit Houthi militia targets across  Yemen on Monday night, striking the group's northern stronghold of Saadeh, the capital, Sanaa, and the central town of Yarim, residents and media said. "There were huge blazes in the mountains outside Sanaa. It...

At least 17 people have been killed in Syrian regime air strikes on the rebel-held city of Idlib north of Syria two days since an alliance of Islamist groups have seized the city for the first time in Syria's civil war, activists said. Fatah Army, an alliance which...

A medic from Hamas was killed in the Yarmuk refugee camp south of the Syrian capital Damascus on Monday, the Palestinian Islamist movement said. The movement said in a statement that it "mourns the death of the jihadist brother, the martyr, Yehya...

Syrian activists said bodies of 5 brothers from southern province of Daraa were identified by leaked mass torture photos. Jihad, Mohamed, Ahmed, Ridha and khaled Younes Sorour were arrested by Syrian regime forces on August 6 2012. The sixth brother,...

Here is a new Iraqi paradox: whatever progress the Shi’ite Muslim-dominated Baghdad government makes against jihadi insurgents occupying large swathes of north-western Iraq, it is simultaneously undermining what is left of the Iraqi state, whose frailty and malfunctions created the...

 A Syrian military source accused  Turkey  on Monday of helping Islamist rebels to stage an assault on Idlib, a provincial capital which fighters seized at the weekend. The source declined to comment on the situation in Idlib, citing security considerations, but a...

Russia is supplying weapons to Damascus under contracts completed since the conflict in Syria began in 2011, as well as under earlier deals, President Bashar al-Assad said. Assad's comments, in an interview published by Russian government newspaper Rossiyskaya Gazeta on Monday,...

(Reuters) - A blogger was hacked to death by machete-wielding assailants in the Bangladesh capital Dhaka on Monday, the second attack in five weeks on a critic of religious extremism in the Muslim-majority South Asian nation. Washikur Rahman, a secular blogger, was attacked by...

(Reuters) - Iran 's foreign ministry summoned Turkey's charge d'affaires on Sunday after Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan accused Iran of trying to dominate the Middle East, Iranian media reported. "We are summoning the Turkish charge d'affaires... to register Iran's objection to...

  Absi Smeisem By Absi Smeisem The city of Idlib has fallen completely under the control of opposition fighters as the armed Syrian opposition factions yesterday tightened their grip on neighbourhoods in Idlib and managed to enter the city centre....

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A day after the liberation of the city of Idlib northwest Syria, General Commander of Ahrar al-Sham Islamic movement called on rebels to make Islam’s interest the highest one among all they have as well to be modest, denying any intention to establish an Islamic emirate   ....