The  United Nations   Human Rights Council  has adopted a new resolution calling on Syria  to allow a Commission of Inquiry to continue its work documenting violations and abuses of Human Rights committed by all parties in the country's conflict. The resolution...

The Syrian military, backed by fighters from Hezbollah, used heavy artillery to close in on the city of Zabadani near the border with Lebanon on Friday, Lebanese Hezbollah-run al-Manar television reported. It showed footage of fighters in a mountainous area using heavy weapons around...

  Iran 's foreign minister accused Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan on Friday of fomenting strife in the Middle East, rebuffing his accusation that Iran was trying to dominate the region. "It would be better if those who have created irreparable damages with their...

(Reuters) -  France  plans to start discussions with partners in the "coming weeks" on aUnited Nations Security Council resolution to lay out the parameters for ending the Middle East conflict, French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said on Friday. "I hope that the...

(Reuters) -  Israel  said on Friday it would release millions of dollars of tax income to the Palestinian Authority, three months after freezing the payments in protest at unilateral Palestinian moves towards statehood. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office said the funds...

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(Reuters) - The United States and its allies staged 29 air strikes on Islamic State targets in Syria and Iraq in the latest round of daily attacks, the Combined Joint Task Force said on Thursday. In Iraq, the coalition conducted 17 air strikes near Tikrit, where Iraqi forces...

(Reuters) - Yemen's President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi left his refuge in Aden for Saudi Arabia on Thursday as Houthi rebels battled with his forces on the outskirts of the southern port city. Throughout the day, warplanes from Saudi Arabia and Arab allies struck at the Shi'ite...

(Reuters) - Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has accused the West of trying to weaken Russia by turning Ukraine into a puppet state, a tactic he said had also been used against his own country. "I keep coming back to the fact that there is a connection between the Syrian crisis...

Exclusive photos obtained by Zman al-Wals for Hamza al-Khatib, was 13-year-old,  and Thamer al-Sharei, was 15-year-old, the two boys who tortured to death by Syrian security in the beginning of Syrian revolution 2011 in the southern city of Daraa. In the end of May 2011, Syrian...

Syrian army helicopters dropped barrel bombs on Daraa al- Balad suburb in the southern city of Daraa, killing at least 22 civilians, including 4 children, a monitoring group said Thursday. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the death toll is expected to rise...

(Reuters) - Oil jumped about 5 percent on Thursday, the biggest daily gain in a month, as air strikes in Yemen by Saudi Arabia and its Gulf Arab allies sparked fears that escalation of the Middle East battle could disrupt world crude supplies. The Saudi military operation against...

  Turkish President Recep Tayyib Erdogan said that Iran's efforts to dominate the Middle East is intolerable and the their efforts have been disturbing countries such as Saudi Arabia and Gulf states in the region. In a press conference on...

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  (AFP)- At least 18 people died Thursday in clashes between supporters of President Abed Rabbou Mansour Hadi and Shiite rebels advancing on a town bordering Aden, where the internationally backed leader has sought refuge, a local official said. The clashes erupted in...

Syrian regime president Bashar al-Assad has appointed a new military commander in Hasakah province northeast Syria over demands of his Kurdish allied militias. Pro-regime news feeds said that al-Assad had dismissed General Mohamed Khadour over bloody clashes two months ago between...

(Al Arabiya News)- King Salman bin Abdulaziz of Saudi Arabia ordered the beginning of a sweeping military operation against the Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen early on Thursday, Al Arabiya News Channel reported, citing Saudi sources King Salman gave his order at 12 a.m. on Thursday,...

(AFP)- The long-running conflict with Israel claimed the lives of more Palestinian civilians in 2014 than any year since 1967, the United Nations said Thursday, in a damning report on the humanitarian situation. Meanwhile, rights group Amnesty...

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(Al Arabiya News)- Warplanes of the Royal Saudi Air Force bombed the positions of Yemen’s Houthi militia and destroyed most of their air defenses, Al Arabiya News Channel reported early on Thursday. Arab Gulf states had announced that they have decided to “repel Houthi...