TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — Radical militants killed four members of the National Guard in the mountainous Kasserine region near the Algerian border, Tunisia's Interior Ministry said early Wednesday. The brief statement blamed "terrorists" for the attack but gave no other details....

(Reuters) - The United States and Turkey have reached a tentative agreement to train and equip moderate Syrian opposition fighters and expect to sign the pact soon, U.S. and Turkish officials said on Tuesday with Ankara predicting a signing in days. The U.S. military has said...

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(Zaman Al Wasl)- 7 rebel fighters, including two army defectors, were killed on Tuesday near Dumeir city in the eastern district of Qalamoun, Local Coordination Committee said. Reports say rebels were ambushed by Syrian regime forces near the desert city of Dumeir....

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia—Qatar’s ruler was in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday for talks with the newly enthroned King Salman about the deteriorating security situation in Yemen and relations with Egypt. A Saudi official said Salman greeted Qatari Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani at the...

A new poll conducted in Israel has recorded an increase among Israelis who believe that Palestinian resistance movement  Hamas  defeated the self-proclaimed Jewish state during last summer's offensive against the  Gaza  Strip. According to the survey, conducted by...

LUHANSKE, Ukraine (AP) — The Ukrainian presidential office has called on the European Union and NATO to condemn the Russia-backed rebels for violating the cease-fire. Russian news agencies on Tuesday quoted Valery Chaly, chief of the Ukrainian presidential administration, as saying...

(Reuters) - Four suicide attackers on Tuesday stormed a provincial police headquarters in eastern Afghanistan , killing 22 police, an official said. Taliban insurgents immediately claimed responsibility. The attack in Logar province outside the capital, Kabul, was the latest to...

(Reuters) - Oil rose to $62 a barrel on Tuesday, close to its 2015 high, supported by threats to Middle East supplies and expectations lower prices may prompt a slowdown in U.S. output. Egypt on Monday bombed Islamic State targets in Libya, where violence has reined in most...

 European Union finance ministers piled pressure on  Greece  on Tuesday to remain in an international financial rescue program as the euro fears of disruption when Athens' credit lines expire in 10 days time. But as he returned to meetings on other, routine, matters with...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime forces backed by allied militias have launched a major offensive on southern suburbs of Damascus, pressing a campaign against rebels posing one of the biggest remaining threats to the capital, activists said Tuesday. Activist Abu Hamza...

  (Zaman Al Wasl)-  The Syrian army backed by allied militia has captured several villages north of Aleppo from insurgents and blocked a main supply route leading into the northern city amid heavy fighting, Reuters said on Tuesday. The Britain-based Syrian...

(Reuters) - The head of Israel's election commission acted on Monday to limit any pre-election boost Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu may get from a March 3 speech to the U.S. Congress, in which he will warn of the threat from Iran's nuclear programme. The speech has caused...

(Reuters) - Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi called for a United Nations  resolution mandating an international coalition to intervene in Libya after its jets bombed Islamic State targets there. "There is no other choice, taking into account the agreement...

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(The  Libya Herald)-  There are reports that at least 35 Egyptians have been kidnapped in what appears to be a round-up at various locations in areas controlled by Ansar Al-Sharia and IS. The  Libya Herald  has been told that starting this morning, in the wake...

(Reuters) - A Syrian insurgent group on Monday criticized as "biased" a United Nations envoy seeking a ceasefire between government forces and armed groups in Aleppo and said it would not meet him. The Revolutionary Command Council (RCC) statement followed comments on Friday by...

(AP) — A rocket attack on a government-held neighborhood in the northern city of Aleppo Monday killed at least nine civilians, including children, Syrian state media and an activist group said. The official SANA news agency said three children were among nine people killed when the...

By Abdullah Al Ghadawi; Edited to English by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- Dr. Mohammed Hikmat Walid, the new Supreme Leader of Muslim brotherhood, who was seen as came out of blue, does not agree on that perception. “I have been a member of Muslim Brotherhood for years, a...