(Reuters) - Qatar is committed to defeating the Islamic State, its emir assured U.S. President Barack Obama on Tuesday in his first official visit to the White House. Obama said Sheikh Tamim Bin Hamad al-Thani committed to fighting Islamic extremists and supporting the moderate...

 Armed men from Yemen's newly dominant Houthi group took over a special forces army base in the capital Sanaa early on Wednesday, soldiers there said. The clashes, which lasted around six hours, started late on Tuesday when Houthis shelled the camp with heavy weapons,...

(Reuters) - Islamic State militants have abducted at least 150 people from Assyrian Christian villages in northeastern Syria they had raided, Christian Syrian activists said on Tuesday. A Syrian Christian group representing several NGOs inside and outside the country said it...

Tunis (AFP) - A Tunisian court said Tuesday it would rule next week on a blogger's appeal against a one-year jail sentence for defaming the military. Yassine Ayari was sentenced by a military court last month after publishing blogs critical of the military, in a case that was...

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Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- The General Body of the Syrian National Coalition for Revolutionary Forces and Opposition has acknowledged the document for “Essential Principles for Political Compromise” at the end of meeting held in...

  Turkey slammed Tuesday Libya's internationally recognized government's decision to cancel the contracts of Turkish firms operating in Libya. Prime Minister Abdullah al-Thani's government, which only controls the eastern part of...

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Reporting by Maher Radhwan; Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- Homs’s refinery works at only 2.5% of its capacity with 9 barrels a day barrels since it used to produce 385 barrels due to the difficulties resulted of Syrian conflict,...

A mine planted by Islamist militant group Boko Haram killed at least two soldiers on Tuesday in the town of Bosso in Niger's southeastern region of Diffa, Niger's defense ministry said. It was the first time Niger has accused the insurgents of planting a mine in recent fighting...

(Reuters) - Gunmen kidnapped a French woman and her Yemeni driver in the centre of Yemen's capital, Sanaa, on Tuesday morning while she was heading to work, security sources said. The unidentified gunmen intercepted the vehicle on 45th Street in central Sanaa and led the...

(Reuters) - Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has signed off on an anti-terrorism law that gives authorities more sweeping powers to ban groups on charges ranging from harming national unity to disrupting public order. The move, announced in the official Gazette on...

(Reuters) - An Egyptian court on Tuesday acquitted two top Hosni Mubarak-era officials of graft charges at a retrial, judicial sources said, a day after a prominent activist was sentenced to five years in jail. Former Prime Minister Ahmed Nazif, and former Interior Minister...

(Reuters) - Islamic State militants have abducted at least 90 people from Assyrian Christian villages in northeastern Syria, a monitoring group that tracks violence in Syria said on Tuesday. The British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the militants carried out...

(Anadolu Agency) - Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said Monday that Turkey's policy on Syria did not change following Saturday's military operation into Aleppo to retrieve the remains of Suleyman Shah. Suleyman Shah was the grandfather of...

By Farid Farid (al-Araby al-Jadeed)- Samuel Suleiman Shehata is used to long, sleepless nights as a truck driver on Egypt's perilous roads. But on the night of 12 January, the cause of his insomnia was more personal. He had just found...

The Sawaiq al-Rahman brigade announced on Monday that it had killed six Nusra Front fighters, and injured several others in the countryside south of Idlib in northwest Syria. The brigade is a Syrian opposition faction affiliated with the Free Syrian Army (FSA). "The operation...

RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) - Israeli soldiers shot dead a Palestinian in the occupied West Bank on Tuesday, the military and a Palestinian hospital official said. Residents of the Deheishe refugee camp in Bethlehem said Palestinians threw stones at Israeli...

Cairo (AFP) - Almost 15,000 Egyptians have flocked home from war-torn Libya via the border crossing at Sallum, state media reported Monday, after Islamic State group jihadists murdered 21 Coptic Christians. Last week Egyptian and Libyan warplanes hit IS targets inside Libya...

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