(AFP)- The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) militant group released a new video on Sunday purporting to show captured Kurdish Peshmerga fighters paraded through Iraqi streets in cages. The video shows 21 captives presented as 16 Peshmerga fighters, two Iraqi army officers and...

Reporting by Abu Abdullah Al Hourani; Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- A new negotiation team is supposed to meet with the Syrian regime to re-open Babila crossing point to let food in Southern Damascus countryside. Well-informed...

(Reuters) - Militants claiming loyalty to Islamic State said they were behind Sunday's twin bomb attacks on the residence of the Iranian ambassador in the Libyan capital and a rocket strike on the eastern Labraq airport, a group statement. The attack on the ambassador's...

  By Faris al-Rifai; Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- Many activists of aid and relief died in Palestinian camps during the war in Syria, either by the heavy shelling on camps, or by snipers, or even died under torture in detention...

(AFP) - A suicide bomber driving an ambulance killed four people on Sunday in an unprecedented attack on a hospital that took Syria’s civil war to the ruling Assad clan’s hometown for the first time, a monitoring group said. The attack came as the Syrian Observatory for Human...

  The Turkish General Staff  announced on Sunday that Turkey’s precious relics were transferred to a new location in Syria, over which the Turkish flag  is flying, and that no Turkish forces, tanks or equipment were left behind. The Turkish General...

Turkish forces and tanks have entered Syria on Saturday night to remove the tomb of Suleyman Shah, Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu and armed forces confirm. The operation has been completed successfully and the special forces unit that protects the exclave has...

Turkish military operation in Syria removes tomb of Suleyman Shah, Turkish PM Ahmet Davutoglu says.

Egypt's prosecution on Saturday referred 240 people to military courts after accusing them of joining the Muslim Brotherhood, burning down a church and a police station in the central province of Minya, a judicial source has said. The source, who requested anonymity, told The...

By Ora Szekely (Reuters)- Over the last year, Islamic State has presented the rest of the world with a steady stream of atrocities: An attempted genocide against the Yazidi people in Iraq, massacres and bombings of Shi’ite civilians in Syria, and gruesome executions of...

(Reuters) - Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has dispatched his brother and atomic chief to Geneva to try to overcome hurdles in high-profile nuclear talks with the United States and five other major powers, official Iranian media reported on Saturday. U.S. Secretary of...

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(Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Saturday expressed concern about the viability of the Palestinian Authority if it does not soon receive tax revenue which has been withheld by  Israel . The funds have been held back from the Authority since last month in...

(Anadolu News Agency)-  Around 2,000 Syrian fighters will take part in a train-and-equip program in  Turkey  starting from early March, Turkish foreign minister said Friday. Addressing a joint press conference with Turkey’s EU Minister Volkan Bozkir, Justice Minister...

The Ankara Chief Public Prosecutor's Office has launched an investigation into allegations of an assassination attempt on the Turkish president's daughter. Various Turkish media outlets, including Star and Aksam newspapers, reported Friday that an assassination...

Yemen's Shiite Houthi group on Saturday freed some relatives of resigned President Abd Rabbuh Mansour Hadi it had detained in the central province of Ibb earlier in the day, a local official has said. The official told The Anadolu Agency that Houthis had freed the members of the family...

More than 400  Turkmens  are in the hands of the Islamic State of  Iraq  and the Levant, or ISIL, says a report issued Thursday. The Iraqi Turkmen Rescue foundation, based in Baghdad, submitted the report to the Iraqi parliament’s human rights committee...

Yemen's former president Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi escaped weeks of house arrest by the Houthi militia at his official residence on Saturday and fled to his home town of Aden, sources close to him said. He will make a speech later on Saturday on an Aden television station, the sources...

Reporting by Mohamed Al Hussein; Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- A map was published by Nori Brimo, the Member of the National Kurdish Council which shows the area of Syrian Kurdistan, has provoked countless queries among observers, who...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- 48 civilians were massacred by Syrian regime forces after being used as human shields in Hardatneen village in the northern countryside of Aleppo, rebels said as they recaptured the village Friday. Al-Qaeda’s Syria wing Nusra Front...