(Reuters) - Tunisia arrested 32 militant Islamists, some of them returning from fighting in Syria, who planned "spectacular" attacks, officials said on Saturday. News of the arrests came one day after a secular-Islamist coalition cabinet headed by Prime Minister Habib Essid...
Reporting by Faris al-Refai; Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- Activists in Tartus reported ongoing suspicious attempts to change the demographic, religious and sectarian structure in the city, via moving lands and properties to Shiite, under...
Egyptian Prime Minister Ibrahim Mahlab on Saturday downplayed alleged leaks broadcast by satellite channels backing the Muslim Brotherhood movement. He said these alleged leaks would not negatively affect the morale of the Egyptian people. The Prime Minister's remarks came...
(Reuters) - The young American hostage who Islamic State says was killed in a Jordanian air strike was condemned to death by the militant group last year, according to an American Muslim activist. Islamic State seized aid worker Kayla Mueller in 2013 in northern Syria and...
(Reuters) - Jordan carried out a third straight day of air strikes on Islamic State targets on Saturday, it said, in response to the group's killing of a captive Jordanian pilot. “Sorties of air force fighters today bombed bases of the Daesh terror gang,” state television...
(Reuters) - Five blasts across Baghdad on Saturday tempered Iraqis' anticipation of a more relaxed and accessible capital as the government prepared to lift a night-time curfew that has kept the city on a war-time footing for more than a decade. At least 37 people, mostly...
The United Arab Emirates on Saturday ordered a squadron of F-16 warplanes to be stationed in Jordan to support it in strikes against the Islamic State group. The federation's official WAM news agency said Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed al-Nahayan, deputy head of the...
(Reuters) - The Gulf Cooperation Council has accused Shi'ite Houthi rebels of staging a coup in Yemen after they announced they were dissolving parliament and forming a new government, Kuwait's official news agency said on Saturday. The opposition of the GCC, a...
Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- The Syrian opposition’s National Coalition is going through a financial hardship to an extent that members are requested to cover their travel and accommodation expenses to attend the General...
(Reuters) - An improvised bomb exploded outside the republican palace in the Yemeni capital Sanaa on Saturday and wounded three Shi'ite Muslim militiamen guarding it, eyewitnesses said. The attack came a day after the Houthi Shi'ite militant group dissolved parliament and...
(Reuters) - The head of Turkey's intelligence service, Hakan Fidan, one of President Tayyip Erdogan's closest confidants, has resigned to run in a parliamentary election in June, two senior Turkish officials said on Saturday. Fidan, who played a key role in trying to stop the...
MUNICH (The NY Times)— The United Arab Emirates has informed the United States that it plans to resume its participation in the American-led airstrikes against the Islamic State group, a senior State Department official said Friday. One of the Arab allies in the military...
(Zaman Al Wasl)- The Unified Military Command of Eastern Ghouta district, in statement posted online, stressed the unity of the mainstream group against Syrian regime. The statement comes as criticism has been mounted against Islam Army’s...
(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime air strikes killed more than 22 people, including 5 children and 2 women, in rebel-held city of Douma near Damascus, activists and Local Coordination Committees said on Friday. Activists said air force strikes conducted 10...
(Reuters) - Tunisian Prime Minister Habib Essid promised quick reforms to stimulate growth as he took office on Friday at the head of a coalition government combining secular and Islamist parties. Four years after toppling autocrat Zine El-Abidine Ben Aliand inspiring Arab...
(Reuters) - Military air strikes killed 27 Islamic militants in Egypt's Northern Sinai on Friday in one of the biggest security operations in the region in months, security sources said. Apache helicopters targeted militants from the Sinai Province group, which pledges...
Queen Rania joined thousands of people who turned out after midday prayers in Jordan’s capital Friday to express their solidarity with the pilot murdered by the Islamic State (IS) group. Wearing a black suit and a red-and-white checked keffiyeh over her shoulders, she mixed with the...
(ABC)- The terror group ISIS released a statement today claiming a female American hostage the group had been holding was killed in a Jordanian airstrike recently. The statement, which circulated on Twitter, said an airstrike outside Raqqa, Syria killed the woman,...
BEIRUT (AP) — Syrian army helicopters dropped two barrel bombs on a crowded square in a rebel-held neighborhood in the northern city of Aleppo, killing at least 25 civilians, activists said Friday. Among the casualties in the attack, which took place on Thursday night, were...
(The Guardain)- Yemen’s dominant Houthi faction has dissolved the country’s parliament and said it plans to form a new interim assembly. The new assembly will elect a five-member interim presidential council to manage the country’s affairs,...
