(Reuters) - President Bashar al-Assad has said U.S.-led air strikes against Islamic State militants in Syria should be subject to an agreement with Damascus and Syrian troops should be involved on the ground. Assad was speaking in an interview with the U.S.-based Foreign Affairs...

(CNN) - Kurdish fighters are claiming progress in their fight against ISIS and now control at least 90% of the embattled Syrian city of Kobani, a monitoring group said Monday. Fighters belonging to the People's Protection Units, known as YPG, advanced in the neighborhood of...

(RUDAW) - Syrian opposition leaders meet in Moscow today for preliminary talks, before they are joined by a delegation from Damascus later this week. A number of opposition leaders from inside and outside Syria have traveled to Moscow to attend a...

By Ahmet Gurhan Kartal When Adolf Hitler ordered the walls of the German capital of Berlin to be redecorated with a Nazi party poster -- the first-ever anti-Semitic poster which invited “good” German citizens to boycott Jewish traders on 1st of April 1933 - nobody thought it was...

Left-wing  Syriza party has won Greek parliamentary elections with just over 35 percent of the votes, official results suggest. With 90 percent of votes counted, official results put Syriza's vote at 36.32 percent, giving the party approximately 149...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Islam Army group on Sunday has pounded Damascus neighborhoods by more than 100 rockets, killing 10 civilians and 5 troopers, according to Zaman al-Wasl reporter. Katyusha missiles and hand-made rockets of Sahm al-Islam have...

Writing by Abdullah Al Ghadawi; Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- Conference of Syria’s opposition factions in Cairo this Saturday identified a 10-point vision outlining the future opposition’s meetings, while the National Coalition has not...

Beirut (AFP) - The Islamic State group's radio confirmed on Sunday that its militants have executed Japanese security contractor Haruna Yukawa, following the release of a video announcing the hostage's death. "The Islamic State has carried out its threat... it has executed...

(AFP)- At least 12 protesters and a policeman were killed in unrest in Egypt on Sunday as the country marked the fourth anniversary of its 2011 uprising, officials said. Eleven pro-Islamist protesters were killed in clashes in the north Cairo...

(Zaman Al Wasl)-   Syrian rebels on Sunday have captured strategic Sheikh Miskeen town south the war-torn country after months of heavy fighting with forces loyal to Basher al-Assad, activists said. The fighters of Southern Front have taken...

  (Zaman Al Wasl)- Islam Army group on Sunday has pounded Syrian regime strongholds in Damascus by rockets and mortar fire, five people killed, activists say. Zaharan Alloush, the commander of the Islamist faction which controls Eastern Ghouta...

At least 27 elite police troopers were reported killed in a fierce firefight with suspected Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters (BIFF) in the Philippines Muslim south Sunday. Von Al Haq, the military chief of the rival Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), told the Philippine Daily...

Greeks started to vote in the country's general elections Sunday to elect a new government and parliament. The latest opinion polls show leftist opposition Syriza Party ahead of the ruling center-right New Democracy Party by at...

(Reuters) - A bomb wounded two Egyptian policemen in Cairo on Sunday and security forces moved quickly to disperse small protests on the anniversary of the popular uprising that toppled autocrat Hosni Mubarak in 2011, officials said. The blast targeted policemen stationed...

By Hassan Hassan (The Guardian)- Hamid Ghannam’s first day at an Islamic State (Isis) training camp was intense. Very early on the morning of 13 August, he picked up his packed clothes and walked quickly to the main street in his village to meet three of his cousins. As with many...

(The Independent)- A hungry young Syrian child was beaten by a manager at a branch of Burger King in Istanbul for eating a customer’s left over food. The incident occurred at the branch in Şirinevler earlier in the week, the Hurriyet Daily News reports. Shocked...

Benghazi (Libya) (AFP) - Libya's Ansar al-Sharia jihadist group on Saturday confirmed the death of its leader Mohamed al-Zehawi, after Islamist websites reported he had been mortally wounded in fighting in October. "We mourn the death of the Emir of Ansar al-Sharia Sheikh Mohamed...

Report by Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR)   Introduction The first extremist foreign militias to emerge in Syria were’t Daesh or An-Nussra Front where months before their emergence, non-Arabic fighters appeared in Syria....

(Reuters) - A woman protester was shot dead in central Cairo on Saturday, security sources said, one day before the anniversary of the popular uprising that ousted autocrat Hosni Mubarak in 2011. A security crackdown mounted after the army toppled president Mohamed Mursi of the...

(Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama will visit Saudi Arabia on Tuesday to meet its new King Salman after the death of his predecessor Abdullah on Friday, testimony to Riyadh's important role in energy markets and the fight against Islamist militancy. Russia's Prime...