BEIRUT: The alleged mastermind behind the kidnapping of the Lebanese servicemen from the northeastern border town of Arsal has been expelled from ISIS, local daily Al-Akhbar said Monday. Al-Akhbar said it had learned that Abu Talal al-Hamad, ISIS’s commander for Syria’s...

BAGHDAD: At least 16 Iraqi border guards were killed Monday in a dawn assault by ISIS jihadis on their post near the Syrian frontier, provincial and security officials said. "Sixteen border guards, including a captain, were killed and four wounded in an attack targeting their...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian Opposition Government said no meeting has been held between Ahmed Tomeh and prominent dissident Abdul Halim Khaddam in Paris. The Interim Government office denied to Zaman al-Wasl news circulated over a meeting between...

(Reuters) - Islamist militants beheaded a Tunisian policeman after he was kidnapped near the Algerian border late on Sunday, officials said on Monday. The government has tightened security as it prepares for a presidential election runoff this month between incumbent Moncef...

(Reuters) - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will decide in the next few days whether he can heal his fractured coalition government or call an early election, one of his advisers said on Monday. The government is split on a range of issues, including the 2015 budget,...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Two senior rebel commanders were killed by unknown assassins in Eastern Ghouta suburbs near Damascus, Islam Army and Ummah Army said on Sunday. Key rebel groups of the embattled Ghouta have mourned two of their prominent commanders...

 The new president of the Syrian National Coalition supports a "comprehensive" political solution for ending the Syrian crisis. The Syrian National Coalition is a group of opposition factions battling to topple Syrian President Bashar...

(By Zaman Staff; Translation by Yusra Ahmed) (Zaman Al Wasl)- Formation of the “Syrian Revolution Leadership Council”, as part of “Hang on” initiative, was officially announced yesterday. Counselor Qais al-Sheikh, was agreeably designated as the head...

  (Zaman Al Wasl)- Senior rebel commander in rebel group Islam Army was killed by unknown group in Eastern Ghouta suburbs near Damascus, activists said on Sunday. Yousef Abdul Wahhab was assassinated by armed group in al-Reihan village near...

BEIRUT (AP) — U.S.-led coalition warplanes carried out as many as 30 airstrikes overnight against Islamic State militants in and around the group's de facto capital in northeastern Syria, activists said Sunday. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the...

(Reuters) - A settlement to end a three-decade insurgency by Kurdish militants in Turkey could be reached within months if the government puts in place legal guarantees for Kurdish rights, a jailed militant leader was quoted as saying on Sunday. The siege by Islamic State...

(Reuters) - Pope Francis said Islamic militants were carrying out a "profoundly grave sin against God" in Syria and Iraq , calling on Sunday for inter-religious dialogue and action against poverty to help end the conflicts there. Turkey is sheltering nearly 2 million...

(Reuters) - Protests erupted at universities across Egypt on Sunday, condemning a court decision to drop criminal charges against Hosni Mubarak, the president whose ouster in the 2011 uprising raised hopes of a new era of political openness. Hundreds of demonstrators...

TRIPOLI, Lebanon: Gunfire from the Syrian side of the border wounded a Lebanese man Saturday on a north Lebanon highway near the border. The man was shot and fell to the ground on the highway linking Abboudeyeh to Manjaz. The residents waited for the Lebanese Red Cross to...

SHATILA CAMP, Lebanon — An enormous iron key hangs on a water tower above a crossroads in the Palestinian refugee camp of Shatila, just south of downtown Beirut. The sculpture alludes to the rusting keys that many families here treasure, from houses lost when they fled what became...

The Daily Star BEIRUT: The Free Syrian Army has asked the Lebanese Army commander to release five of its members who the opposition group said were fleeing ISIS and heading to Tripoli, north Lebanon, Assafir...

BEIRUT (AP) — The Islamic State group launched an attack Saturday on the Syrian border town of Kobani from Turkey, a Kurdish official and activists said, although Turkey denied that the fighters had used its territory for the raid. The assault began when a suicide bomber driving...

By Zaman Staff; Translation by Yusra Ahmed Gaziantep (Zaman Al Wasl)- Many armed groups and battalions in Syria, have announced yesterday forming the “Syrian Revolution Leadership Council” as a part of “Hang on” initiative, which aims to unite the...

Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- The Islamic State decided to insilate “Fajr el-Islam” group in Qalamoun , known as Imad Jomma’s group, for breaching the Sharea rules, and the decision had been implemented. The decision was took...

(Reuters) - Syria's foreign minister said U.S.-led air strikes had failed to weaken Islamic State it in Syria and the jihadist group would not be tackled unless Turkey was forced to tighten border controls. A U.S.-led alliance started attacking Islamic State targets in Syria...