(Reuters) - Islamic State insurgents battled Iraqi forces in the center of Baiji on Tuesday, a week after the army broke their prolonged siege of the country's largest oil refinery just outside the town, an army officer and residents said. The renewed fighting in Baiji by the...

(Reuters) - Tunisian secularist leader Beji Caid Essebsi beat incumbent President Moncef Marzouki in the first round of landmark presidential elections, but the two men will have to meet again in a December run-off, early results showed on Tuesday. Essebsi, from the Nidaa...

Translation by Yusra Ahmed ( EQTSAD )- People in Bab al-Salamah camp on the Syrian-Turkish boarders, live in severe hard living conditions, where no drinking water or sanitary are available, threatening of diseases and epidemics, and children are...

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has expressed Tehran's commitment to continue nuclear talks with the major powers to reach a final settlement over Iran’s nuclear enrichment program. In comments made late Monday during a live televised address on state television,...

After counting nearly 95 percent of votes in Tunisia's presidential election, Beji Caid el-Sebsi, head of the centrist Nidaa Tounes party, won 39.5 percent of votes followed by interim president Moncef Marzouki. A tally conducted by Anadolu Agency showed that Marzouki came...

Reporting by George Hadad; Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl Leaks)- A recent document leaked by the Syrian regime’s security showed how the regime knew all crimes committed by “Shabiha” in Salamiyah city east Hama province....

BEIRUT: Two newborn Syrian refugee babies died from cold over the weekend on the rugged outskirts of the Lebanese border town of Arsal, where thousands of Syrians are living in unheated tents in freezing temperatures, medical sources told The Daily Star Monday. A 3-day-old...

BEIRUT: Clashes with machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades erupted between rival Palestinian gunmen in the refugee camp of Burj al-Barajneh in the southern suburb of Beirut Monday, killing a woman and injuring several others, security sources told The Daily Star. The...

    (Zaman Al Wasl)- General Commander of Mujahideen army denied news circulated by opposition media about alliance with West-backed rebel group, Hazm Movement, in new armed group . Lieutenant Colonel Abu Baker refuted to Zaman...

(Reuters) - U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel has resigned, the first major cabinet change after Obama's Democrats were routed in mid-term elections three weeks ago. Obama was to announce Hagel's resignation at a White House event at 11:10 a.m. on Monday. Hagel, who had...

(Reuters) - An official under former hardline ruler Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali appears set for a close run-off in Tunisian presidential polls with a rival who says he represents the 2011 "Arab Spring" uprising that toppled him. Preliminary results in the country's first...

(Zaman Al Wasl)-   Ahmed Tomeh’s government failed to win confidence vote of National Coalition’s members where 5 ministers failed to reach the quorum of 56-vote to win. The last 72 hours witnessed sharp hassles among the the key opposition...

BEIRUT (AP) — Al-Qaida militants and Syrian rebels launched an attack against two predominantly Shiite Muslim villages in northern Syria that have been under siege for some 18 months, activists and a monitoring group said Sunday. The Local Coordination Committees and the...

QOM, Iran (AP) — Shiite and Sunni clerics from about 80 countries gathered in Iran's holy city of Qom on Sunday to develop a strategy to combat extremists, including the Islamic State group that has captured large parts of Iraq and Syria. Shiite-majority Iran has been helping...

  (Zaman Al Wasl)- Free Syrian Army founder, Riad al-Asaad, refused to meet former head of Syria's main political opposition who wanted to brief rebels by the outcomes of his recent visit to Russia, sources said. Moaz al-Khatib, the former head...

BEIRUT, Nov 23 (Reuters) - Syria's state spending is expected to rise 12 percent to 1.55 trillion Syrian pounds ($9.10 billion) next year, driven by higher social support costs, state news agency SANA reported citing a draft budget presented to lawmakers on Sunday....

(Zaman Al Wasl)-   Ahmed Tomeh’s new government finally will see the light after three days of give-and-take among the political blocs of key opposition group National Coalition. The last 72 hours witnessed sharp hassles among the NC members,...

Reporting by Faris Al Rifai; Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- Lebanese authorities ordered Syrian and Palestinian refugees who live in al-Marj camp to leave it within 48 hours because its close to military base, activists said on Sunday ....

By Abu Abdullah Al Hourani; Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- People in Southern of Damascus which have been under severe siege for 2 years, found a new source of fuel can be used in their daily activities, where plastic materials of any...

(Reuters) - Tunisians went to the polls on Sunday to vote for their first directly elected president, in the final step to be taken to full democracy after the 2011 revolution that ended the rule of Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali. More than three years since overturning Ben Ali's...