Iraqi Peshmerga forces killed 36 Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant militants Tuesday near the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, a Peshmerga commander said. “Peshmerga forces repelled ISIL’s attack and killed 36 militants, including Abo Omar al-Kurdi, an ISIL leader,”Albay Berham...

(Reuters) - At least two rockets from Syria hit the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights on Tuesday and Israel returned fire, the military said, nine days after an Israeli air strike in Syria killed an Iranian general and several Lebanese Hezbollah guerrillas. An Israeli military...

  (Al Araby Al Jadeed)- Yemen has in recent years provided a live practical demonstration of the maxim that political sectarianism is manufactured, rather than inherent. It is acquired rather than natural. Historically, Yemen was never party to...

Libyan security forces on Tuesday rescued 12 foreign nationals from a prominent Tripoli hotel who, it was feared, had been taken hostage by militants earlier. "The 12 foreigners have left the 21st floor [of Tripoli's Corinthia Hotel] to the 26th floor, where they were rescued...

The deputy head of a regional department of Russia's Central Bank has shot dead three office colleagues before killing himself, according to Russian media reports. The banker reportedly killed two female members of staffs before shooting dead a male bank employee on the...

(Anadolu News Agency)- Turkish authorities have closed the country’s southeastern Cilvegozu border crossing for exit and entry due to security concerns following random gun fire from Syria's nearby Bab al-Hawa border crossing. Gunfire was heard at around...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Commander of Islam Army, in a press conference held in Douma city, vowed Syrian regime by more surprises , a day after targeting the capital by 100 rockets and killing 15 people. Zaharan Alloush, the commander of the...

Translation by Yusra Ahmed HOMS (Zaman Al Wasl)- A former member of the political security, An alawite from Homs, revealed details about the “Shiite Crimes” in the city. In his letter to Zaman al-Wasl he expressed his wish to reveal information he...

Gaza City (Palestinian Territories) (AFP) - The UN agency for Palestinian refugees said on Tuesday that it cannot afford to repair Gaza homes damaged in last year's war with Israel because donors have failed to pay. "The agency has exhausted all funding to support repairs and...

Montpellier (France) (AFP) - At least five people were arrested during a anti-jihadist operation in southern France that was still ongoing early Tuesday, a security source said. The operation took place in the small town of Lunel east of Montpellier in southern France,...

(AFP)- EU leaders have asked ministers to consider a new wave of sanctions against Russia in the wake of a new military campaign by pro-Moscow rebels in eastern Ukraine, a statement said Tuesday. The European Union's 28 heads of government asked the bloc's foreign ministers,...

(Reuters) - Argentina's cabinet chief on Monday said journalists could work safely in the country after the reporter who broke the news of the mysterious death of a state prosecutor fled to Israel , saying he feared for his life under the current government. On Jan. 18, Damian...

(Reuters) - A CIA drone strike on a car in Yemen killed three men believed to be al Qaeda militants on Monday, officials said, in a sign U.S. security operations would continue despite a political crisis in the volatile Arab country. President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi and his...

(Reuters) - Tunisian Prime Minister-designate Habib Essid began new negotiations over his cabinet on Monday after most political parties said they would oppose his initial choice of ministers in a parliamentary vote. Rejection by parliament would mean newly-installed President...

Reporting by Mohamed Al Hussein; Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- Dozens of Iraqi men, have arrived Hasakah city across borders, after Kurdish armed groups attacked their villages, and abducted their women and children, activists said on...

(Zaman Al Wasl-Exclusive)- An exclusive video obtained by Zaman al-Wasl showed 54 hostages, including women and children, were held captive by rebels in Latakia countryside for over 17 months. The hostages accused Bashar al-Assad regime of...

(Reuters) - Kurdish forces took full control of the Syrian town of Kobani near the Turkish border on Monday, driving out the last group of Islamic State fighters after nearly four months of battles, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group said. The Syrian...

Egyptian authorities have released Gamal and Alaa Mubarak, the two sons of ousted President Hosni Mubarak, pending a final trial for corruption, a security source said Monday. "Mubarak's sons were released late Sunday from prison aboard a microbus so that their departure would...

The death toll from violence that erupted on the fourth anniversary of Egypt's Jan. 25 uprising on Sunday has risen to 23, according to the Health Ministry. Sources within ousted President Mohamed Morsi's main support bloc, however, put the total number of fatalities at 25....

(Reuters) - Syrian opposition representatives met in Moscow on Monday at the start of a meeting which the Damascus government will join later this week in efforts to revive peace talks. Nearly four years into a war that has killed more than 200,000 people and displaced...