At least 15 militants from the Islamic State for Iraq and the Levant were killed in Baghdad on Saturday, Iraqi army sources said. In other attacks, eight security officials were killed in the Iraqi capital, Iraqi security officials said on Saturday....

Saudi capital Riyadh would host a summit of Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) leaders this week in a bid to end a diplomatic rift between Qatar on one hand and Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Bahrain on the other, two Gulf newspapers reported Sunday. Saudi Asharq Al-Awsat...

A suicide car bomber targeted the vehicle of an Afghan MP in the capital Kabul on Sunday, killing at least three civilians and injuring 20 others, Afghan authorities said. The driver detonated his explosive-laden car near the vehicle of prominent Afghan MP Shukria...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian activists on Saturday have commemorated the first anniversary of Abdul Qadir Saleh’s death, the leader of Liwa al-Tawhid who died of wounds he sustained in an air strike on a rebel-held air base in Aleppo last year....

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan slammed the West for not reacting to the critical situation in Aleppo, which he says is Syria's most important city, on Saturday. Speaking at the Latin American Muslim Leaders Religious Summit in Istanbul, Erdogan said:...

(Reuters) - The United Arab Emirates has formally designated the Muslim Brotherhood and local affiliates as terrorist groups, state news agency WAM reported on Saturday citing a cabinet decree. The Gulf Arab state has also designated Nusra Front and the Islamic State, whose...

(BBC)- Millions of YouTube viewers have been captivated by the ' Syrian hero boy ' who manages to rescue a little girl while under gunfire. Now a group of Norwegian filmmakers have told BBC Trending they are behind it. They say it was filmed on location in Malta this summer with the...

  (Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime forces have recaptured on Friday two villages in Idlib province without any resistance by Islamist rebels, activists said. Local activists assured that Bashar al-Assad’s forces have gained the advantages of...

(CNN) -- ISIS is planning to mint its own currency in gold, silver and copper, the group said Thursday. Its aim is to stay away from the "tyrant's financial system," ISIS said in a statement. It said it would issue another statement to explain the new currency's exchange rate,...

Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood said Friday that a second member had died in prison this week. Abu Bakr al-Qadi, 64, died in prison in the Upper Egyptian province of Qena late Friday from stomach cancer, the Islamist movement said in a statement. The group accused security...

  (Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian rebels on Saturday thwarted an attack by regime's armed forces on the eastern region of Qalamoun Mountains, pressing slow advances in the desert area of historic Palmyra city east Homs, activists said. Backed by Islamist...

(Reuters) - Islamic State commanders are liable for war crimes on a "massive scale" in northeast Syria , where they spread terror by beheading, stoning and shooting civilians and captured fighters, U.N. investigators said on Friday. Their report, based on over 300 interviews...

(Reuters) - The top U.S. military officer, General Martin Dempsey, arrived on Saturday in Baghdad on an unannounced visit to meet U.S. commanders preparing to expand American assistance to Iraqi and Kurdish forces battling Islamic State militants. It was Dempsey’s first trip...

(Reuters) - With Lebanon's most powerful political parties funded and often directed by regional powers, the country has for decades been affected by events in the Middle East. But extraordinary chaos is exploding around the tiny Mediterranean state and Lebanon's leaders...

(Reuters) - Egypt's most dangerous militant group on Friday posted its first video message since pledging allegiance to Islamic State, with footage purporting to show that the group was behind one of the most deadly attacks on Egyptian security forces in years. The nearly...

Translation by Yusra Ahmed   (Zaman Al Wasl)- The Islamic state of Iraq and Syria said al-Nusra Front and other Islamist groups are apostate groups, rejecting a proposed truce by foreign jihadist to halt...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian rebels, in video posted online, said they had taken control of the communication networks of two powerful army divisions in Daraa province. Daraa rebels, who made rapid advance in Sheikh Meskin town, say they have seized...

  The U.N.’s “action plan” to call a temporary halt to the violence in Syria will only work to strengthen the Assad regime, an opposition leader said on Friday to Anadolu Agency. In an exclusive interview with the Turkish news agency,   the defense minister of the...

Israeli authorities have dropped restrictions on access to the Al-Aqsa Mosque in East Jerusalem, allowing worshippers of all ages into the holy city. Israeli police said Thursday that there will be no age restrictions on  Muslim worshipers for Friday prayers at the Al-Aqsa...

Flavien Moreau, the first French militant to return from Syria, has been sentenced to seven years in jail as The Paris Criminal Court handed down the maximum penalty Thursday, concluding the trial that began on Oct. 17. Another French national Djebbar Farid, 26, was...