(Zaman Al Wasl)- Islam Army has launched a Grad-rocket attack on Bashar al-Assad's hometown of Latakia coinciding with heavy bombardment on Damascus by the same rebel group, activists said. Local Activists of the coastal city posted online photos show...

Rachid Ghannouchi, the head of Tunisia's Ennahda Islamist movement, predicted that the new leadership of Gulf powerhouse Saudi Arabia will adopt a mediatory role in Egypt and Syria. "I expect [new] King Salman bin Abdulaziz to lead reconciliation efforts in the region and...

The Jordanian government denied on Thursday that King Abdullah II would personally take part in airstrikes against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) militant group. "Information disseminated over news and social media outlets about the king's participation in airstrikes...

  BRUSSELS: NATO's is set to more than double the size of its Response Force in response to Russian actions in Ukraine and the challenge of Islamic extremism, the head of the military alliance announced Thursday. NATO secretary-general Jens...

(Zaman Al Wasl-Reuters) - At least 3 people were killed and 30 wounded in a massive mortar and Grad rocket attack on regime strongholds in Damascus on Thursday, activists and rebel Twitter feeds said. Shells thought to be fired from the east of the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Free Syrian Army Wednesday said that regime-held areas of Daraa province will be considered as a military zone by next Saturday, and a target for their shelling.   The statement of the loose-knit nationalist group followed a...

(Reuters) - President Barack Obama ' s nominee for defense secretary on Wednesday vowed to cut through "red tape" slowing U.S. arms deliveries to Jordan, which plans to step up its fight against Islamic State after the killing of a captured Jordanian pilot. Ashton...

(Reuters) - Pro-Russian rebels appeared to be in full control on Wednesday of one of the towns that has been a principal target of their advance, as they attempt to surround a nearby garrison of Ukrainian forces. The apparent fall of the town of Vuhlehirsk would be a setback...

(The Guardian)- Jordan’s King Abdullah has vowed a relentless war against Islamic State on their own territory, a day after Isis released a video showing a captured Jordanian pilot being burned alive . “We are waging this war to protect our faith, our values and human principles...

By Zaman staff; Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl-Special- Syria’s opposition’s interim government is going through severe financial crisis threatening of dissolving it and announcing bankruptcy if not urgent liquidity to pump in. A...

(Reuters) - The United Arab Emirates has withdrawn from flying air strikes in the U.S.-led international coalition campaign against Islamic State fighters, who are occupying parts of Iraq and Syria, U.S. officials said on Wednesday. The officials, who spoke on condition of...

(Reuters) - Chancellor Angela Merkel's cabinet approved a draft law on Wednesday aimed at preventing radical German Muslims from travelling to Iraq and Syria to fight for or train with groups like Islamic State. It will also outlaw funding for recruits who try to travel to join...

(Reuters) - Gunmen possibly linked to Islamist militants assaulted and seized control of a Libyan oilfield, killing and kidnapping several workers, Libyan and foreign officials said on Wednesday. A French diplomatic source in Paris said four local employees were believed to...

(Reuters) - An Egyptian court sentenced prominent activist Ahmed Douma to life in prison on Wednesday, judicial sources said, part of a sustained crackdown on Islamist and liberal government opponents. Douma, a leading figure in the pro-democracy revolt that toppled autocrat...

(Reuters) - The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has declared itself "extremely concerned" by photographs showing its food parcels being handed out in Syria with Islamic State logos on them. Images circulating on social media show food being distributed from...

  (Reuters) - Muslim clerics widely denounced Islamist militants in Syria over the burning to death of a Jordanian pilot, saying such a form of killing was considered an abomination under Islam, no matter the justification. Islamic State militants released a video on...

  (Zaman Al Wasl)- The ousted opposition ambassador to Doha, in letter addressed to the head of National Coalition, said the dismissal decision on Tuesday was unjust and issued over a personal animosity. Two-thirds of the Coalition's political...

(Reuters) - At least nine people were killed and dozens were unaccounted for after a Taiwanese TransAsia Airways plane with 58 passengers and crew on board crash-landed in a Taipei river on Wednesday, officials and domestic media said. Dramatic pictures taken by a motorist...

(Reuters) - Jordan executed by hanging on Wednesday a jailed Iraqi woman militant hours after Islamic State fighters released a video appearing to show a captured Jordanian pilot being burnt alive in a cage, a security source and state television said. The militants had...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Representatives of Nusra Front and Ahrar al-Sham movement were met in Idlib countryside on Monday over reconciliation efforts. The dispute escalated when fighters of al-Qaeda’s Syria wing killed senior commander of Ahrar al-Sham in...