(Reuters) - Islamic State suicide bombers and fighters struck targets on Saturday in the northern Iraqi city of Samarra, where security forces and their Shi'ite militia allies have been gathering for an offensive against the radical Sunni militants. Security sources and residents said...

(Reuters) - Jailed Kurdish militant leader Abdullah Ocalan called on his followers to take a "historic" decision to lay down their arms, according to a statement on Saturday, a crucial step in Turkey's drive to end a 30-year insurgency by Kurdish rebels. Turkey's president, Tayyip...

  (Zaman Al Wasl)- Southern Front rebel group declared general mobilization, in statement issued on Saturday, as Syrian regime troops backed by allied Iranian and Lebanese militias have been making advances in the Syrian south, tasking control of key towns....

An Egyptian court on Saturday sentenced four Muslim Brotherhood members to death – two in absentia – over charges of killing demonstrators outside the group's headquarters in 2013, a judicial source has said. The court also slapped 14 Muslim Brotherhood leaders, including...

  (Reuters) - An Egyptian court listed the Palestinian group Hamas as a terrorist organization, judicial sources said on Saturday, part of a sustained crackdown on Islamists in the most populous Arab state. In a separate case earlier in the day, a court sentenced the Egyptian Muslim...

By Azmi Bishara (al-Araby al-Jadeed)- The Houthi movement has followed a model of power politics seen in revolutions from the past, in which rebel forces master the game of alliances, placating some opponents and using force against others who are harder...

Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian activists have circulated a shocking video on the social media showed the celebration of forced marriage between militant loyal to Bashar al-Assad and a teenage girl from Aleppo countryside....

(Zaman Al Wasl)- US-led coalition airstrikes on Friday killed two fighters of al-Qaeda’s Syria wing Nusra Front near Salqeen town in Idlib countryside, the jihadist group said in statement. Zaman al-Wasl reporter said the Nusra’s bases were hit by two...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The Islamic State (ISIS) launched a surprise attack on Syrian regime checkpoints in the eastern countryside of Homs, killing 10 and wounding 20, sources said Friday. The ISIS fighters stormed all checkpoints and barracks of the regime...

Turkey's Constitutional Court has ordered the retrial of pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party lawmaker, who was convicted of being a member of a terrorist organization in 2012. The court ruled that Sebahat Tuncel’s right to be tried fairly and in a reasonable time period was...

(Reuters) - The United Nations Security Council on Friday condemned what it described as the latest "barbaric terrorist acts" in Iraq by Islamic State militants, including the destruction of priceless religious and cultural artifacts. A video published by the ultra-radical...

(Reuters) - Talks on curbing Iran’s nuclear program have made substantial progress, a senior U.S. official said on Friday as the White House braced for an onslaught of criticism next week from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The official told reporters many hurdles...

 An aircraft from Libyan forces controlling Tripoli crashed near the Tunisian border and may have been shot down, Tunisia's state news agency TAP reported on Friday. The aircraft went down 5 kilometers from the frontier inside Libya , TAP said, but did not provide any...

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    (Zaman Al Wasl)- Activists reported on Friday that Syrian regime forces backed by Shiite militants have recaptured hills were controlled by rebels days ago in the south of Syrian capital. Abu Hamza al-Shami, local activist,...

LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Islamic State militants have abducted, injured and killed thousands of civilians across northern  Iraq  and uprooted millions from their homes in a bid to eradicate the country's ethnic and religious minorities, rights groups said on Friday....

(Reuters) - British Prime Minister David Cameron vowed on Friday to use all means at his disposal to hunt down militants such as "Jihadi John" after the killer was unmasked as a Kuwaiti-born computer programming graduate from London. The black-clad militant brandishing a knife and...

(Reuters) - Police in Cyprus are questioning three Syrian men on suspicion of exporting cars illegally from the island to Syria, authorities said on Friday. Authorities said they could not speculate on the final destination or use of the twin-cabin pick-ups, but follows media...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- A car bomb has killed at least 11 people in a Syrian rebel-controlled city in the eastern countryside of Damascus, Local coordination said Friday. More than 30 people were reportedly hurt in the attack which targeted Bilal mosque in Dumeir city as most of...

(Reuters) - Libyan authorities are unable to halt the illicit trade in oil or the flow of weapons in and out of the country, and they need an international maritime force to help, United Nations sanctions monitors said in a new report. The confidential report by the U.N....