(Zaman Al Wasl)- A senior rebel commander was assassinated on Thursday in the eastern suburbs of Damascus by al-Qaeda’s Syria wing, a according to rebel group statement. The Islamic Union for Ajnad al-Sham has accused the Nusra Front of killing its...

  (Zaman Al Wasl)- Three civilians were killed Thursday in raids of U.S.-led International Coalition on al-Shaddadi city south of Hasakah, and three others were killed by regime air strikes on Tal Barrak in the northeast of the city, activists said...

(Reuters) - Brent crude oil traded almost $2 higher on Friday, on track for its second weekly increase, as fighting in Libya and stronger economic signals from the United States helped futures rebound from near-six-year lows. Prices remain roughly 50 percent below their peak...

(Reuters) - A car laden with explosives killed two people, as well as the driver, and wounded around 20 in Libya's second biggest city, Benghazi on Friday, medics and military officials said. The car exploded as it was being driven towards an army tank base and ammunitions...

(Reuters) - EU member states must develop a common approach to lawfully intercept services such as Skype to stem the flow of European citizens returning from Syria radicalized and trained, the bloc's agency on judicial cooperation said. Since the Islamist attacks against...

(Reuters) - Syrian air force strikes killed 82 people in an opposition district outside Damascus following rocket attacks by rebels that hit the government-controlled center of the capital, a monitoring group said on Friday. The Syria n Observatory for Human Rights, which...

(Reuters) - The leaders of Germany and France are expected to take peace proposals to Moscow on Friday on the second leg of a dramatic initiative to end a conflict in Ukraine that has killed more than 5,000 people and driven Russia-West relations to new lows. The coordinated trip...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian National Coalition’s political body holds meeting on Friday to discuss Zaman al-Wasl latest leaks over alleged corruption files inside the interim government. Coalition Member, Aalia Mansour, demanded a clear explanation in...

(Reuters) - Islamic State's defeat in Kobani and other recent setbacks in Syria suggest the group is under strain but far from collapse in the Syrian half of its self-declared caliphate. Islamic State's high-profile defeat by Kurdish militia backed by U.S.-led air strikes...

Interview b y Abdullah Al Ghadawi; Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- The new president of Syrian opposition's National Coalition, Khalid Khoja, was elected away from dictation, blocs’ influence and regional considerations, to give Syrians a...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime has acquiesced to rebels’ demand to free 6 detainees, including 3 children and 2 women, in Idlib province as rebels cut off electricity and water on regime-control city of Idlib, activists said. The bargain included...

PARIS (AFP) - The Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) group has learned from the mistakes of past extremist movements and established a near-impregnable base of support within Iraq and Syria with spectacular appeal to many of the world's Sunni Muslims, a new book has warned....

As Jordan mourns the young pilot who was burned alive by ISIS , questions are mounting over what the government knew about the fate of Lt. Muath al-Kasasbeh — and more important, when. Rumors of al-Kasasbeh's death have been circulating for weeks....

(Reuters) - Most Yemeni factions have agreed to set up an interim presidential council to manage the country for up to one year, negotiators said on Thursday, in a step to ease a power struggle that forced the president to step down two weeks ago. The dominant Houthi movement...

(Reuters) - In a statement read by a masked gunman, 10 armed Palestinian factions jointly condemned on Thursday an Egyptian decision to list the military wing of the Islamist group Hamas as a terrorist organization. An Egyptian court last week banned the Izz el-Deen Al-Qassam...

(Reuters) - Jordanian fighter jets pounded Islamic State hideouts in Syria on Thursday and then roared over the hometown of a pilot killed by the militants while King Abdullah consoled the victim's family below. Witnesses overheard the monarch telling the pilot's father the...

(Reuters) - Libya's only commercial flight link to mainland Europe was severed on Thursday when the state carrier said its foreign partner had pulled out of the country after a deadly attack last week on a Tripoli hotel. The carrier, Afriqiyah, had only just restarted the route...

(Reuters) - Tunisia's parliament approved a coalition cabinet on Thursday including secularists, Islamists and smaller parties, in the latest step in its transition to full democracy following a 2011 uprising. Four years after its uprising against autocrat Zine El-Abidine Ben...

(Euronews)- The King of Jordan has visited the family of the captured pilot murdered by ISIL militants. King Abdullah II travelled to Karak, south of Amman, to present his condolences. He also promised the family of Lieutenant Muath al-Kaseasbeh that his death would...

  (Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime airstrikes killed at least 65 people in Eastern suburbs of Damascus on Thursday, as regime airforce launch the fiercest Aerial campaign in months in retaliation to rocket attack of Islam Army rebel group, activists said....