(Reuters) - A top figure in Islamic State's self-declared police force, which has carried out beheadings, was himself found decapitated in eastern Syria , a monitoring group said. The man was an Egyptian national and was known as the deputy "emir" of the al-Hesbah force in a...

A Tunisian military court Tuesday denied bail for a blogger who is appealing his three-year jail sentence for defaming the army -- a case that has alarmed rights campaigners. The court scheduled the next hearing for Yassine Ayari on January 20. Ayari, 33, was...

Three countries that did not vote in favor of last week’s Palestinian UN Security Council draft resolution are no longer a part of the 15-member body, as the Palestinian Authority prepares to resubmit the motion. The UN's most powerful body rejected...

 Despite its promises, the Russian government has been unable to support the value of the ruble.    After losing 6 percent on the dollar on Monday, the currency on Tuesday fell steadily to a value of 63.45 to the dollar and 75.52 to the euro...

(Reuters) - Oil prices sank to fresh 5-1/2-year lows on Tuesday, extending losses after a 5 percent plunge in the previous session as worries over a global supply glut intensified. Brent crude held below $53 a barrel as monthly oil selling price cuts for European buyers...

The new president of the National Coalition for Syrian Revolution and Opposition Forces, also known as the Syrian National Coalition, ruled out Monday dialogue with the Assad regime.  "Dialogue with the regime is not in the agenda of the Syrian National Coalition nor...

  (Zaman Alwasl Leaks)-   A new search engine by Zaman al-Wasl has been launched on Tuesday including names of 21,000 people who are wanted by Syrian political security agency till the first half of 2014. Last August, Zaman Alwasl lauched...

The U.S. is opposed to Israel's decision to freeze the transfer of tax revenues to the Palestinian Authority as a reaction to Palestinians’ efforts to join the International Criminal Court, an official said Monday. “We call on both sides to avoid actions that raise...

The Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) will have a budget of $2 billion for 2015, the group’s leaders in Iraq told a London-based news outlet. Naji Abdullah, a tribal leader in Mosul, told al-Araby al-Jadeed that ISIS would be dedicating much of the funding to territory...

President Barack Obama congratulated President Beji Caid Essebsi on Monday for his victory in Tunisia’s first presidential election under its new constitution.   In a telephone call, Obama commended Tunisians “for the spirit of peaceful compromise that has prevailed...

The recent admission into hospital of Saudi King Abdullah bin Abdelaziz has raised questions about the political succession in the oil-rich Gulf state. The 90-year-old ruler has been diagnosed with pneumonitis, making it necessary for hospital doctors to provide him with a tube to...

A Turkish army officer, who was abducted on Jan. 1 while on duty along the Turkish-Syrian border, has been brought back to Turkey, Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said Monday. Davutoglu made the announcement via his official Twitter account in Turkish and said the...

  (Reuters) - Syria has complained to the United Nations that U.S. Senator John McCain, former French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner and former U.S. diplomat Peter Galbraith entered the country without visas in separate visits in violation of its sovereignty. Syria's...

Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- The constituent conference for the National Alliance for revolutionary forces was held this Saturday in the border town of Reyhanlı in Turkish Hatay province. Tension has overshadowed the founding...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Turkey and United States to sign a memorandum of understanding in January to set the training program of Syrian moderate rebels, Turkish Anadolu Agency said. The program will allow 15,000 Syrian fighters to follow military trainings in...

(Reuters) - The new head of Syria's Western-backed political opposition cast doubt on Monday on whether members of his group would attend talks in Russia this month aimed at finding a solution to the nearly four-year Syrian conflict. Moscow, one of President Bashar al-Assad's...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The newly-formed rebel group al-Shamiya Front on Monday pressed slow advances north of Aleppo, killing 20 troops loyal to Bashar al-Assad and taking control of strategic district near the main entrance of the city. Field sources told Zaman...

  (Reuters) - Syria's Western-backed political opposition group, the National Coalition for Syrian Revolutionary and Opposition Forces, has elected a new presidential committee and a president widely seen as free of links to any of the body's international sponsors. Despite...

(Reuters) - A Libyan warplane from forces loyal to the internationally recognized government bombed a Greek-operated oil tanker anchored off the coast, killing two crewmen in an escalation of hostilities between factions vying to rule the country. Military officials said the...

(Reuters) - A former Tunisian interior minister has been nominated as prime minister to form a new government after an agreement among political parties in the newly elected parliament, congress speaker Mohamed Nacer said on Monday. The nominee, Habib Essid, worked in the...