(Reuters) - Islamic State has shut all schools in areas it controls in eastern Syria pending a religious revision of the curriculum, residents and a monitoring group said on Friday. Islamic State is tightening its rules on civilian life in Deir al-Zor province, which fell under...

(Reuters) - Western and Arab powers that are have deployed air strikes to prevent the Syrian town of Kobani falling to Islamic State must be ready to help another Kurdish enclave that is also surrounded by Islamist fighters, the local leader said on Friday. Kobani has been...

(Reuters) - Yemen's president has announced a new cabinet including members of the Shi'ite Muslim Houthi group that captured the capital Sanaa in September, state media said on Friday, in a move that could help end a crippling standoff in the Arab nation. Under a power-sharing...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 40 militants loyal to Bashar al-Assad on Thursday were killed by Syrian rebels and al-Qaeda’s affiliates in villages of Mount Hermon (Jabal al-Sheikh), reliable sources said. Zaman al-Wasl reporter quoted field sources...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The Islamist insurgent group Ahrar al-Sham movement, in new statement posted online, assured participation in fighting against Syria Revolutionaries' Front which was defeated by al-Qaeda Syria’s wing Nusra Front and other rebels group...

By Abu Abdullah Al Hourani;   Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- Period of electricity cut-off has increased in Damascus and countryside, because regime lost control on petrol fields and pipes, refineries and electricity generation...

  (Zaman Al Wasl)- One of Basher al-Assad’s close relatives was killed on Thursday when Islamist rebels seized control of strategic Sheikh Miskeen city in Daraa province, south Syria, activists said Aktah Ibrahim Shalish is the cousin of General...

  (Zaman Al Wasl)- Syria’s Muslim Brotherhood on Thursday named Mohamed Hekmat Walid as a new leader, source told Zaman al-Wasl. Walid, 70 year-old, is a veteran physician with PHD degree and member of the General Secretariat of opposition's...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Rebels of embattled Eastern Ghouta suburbs on Wednesday have killed senior commander in ‘Arab National Guards’ militia which is fighting along with Bashar al-Assad’s forces activists said. Brigadier Said al-Sa’di, the Palestinian...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Islamist rebels have taken control of strategic Sheikh Miskeen city in Daraa province in the Syrian south, activists said on Thursday. Backed by the hardline Islamic factions, al- Nusra Front overrun Syrian regime’s bastions...

Libya's supreme constitutional court on Thursday formally dissolved the country's recently-elected House of Representatives (parliament). A number of lawmakers had asked the court in June to rule on the constitutionality of the assembly, which was elected in June. There has...

BEIRUT: The Lebanese Army arrested 24 suspects including three Syrians with alleged links to terrorist groups and four gunmen over their involvement in last month’s clashes in Tripoli, part of the military’s nationwide crackdown on terror suspects. Security sources told The...

  A U.S. Predator drone targeted and is believed to have killed French bomb maker David (Daoud) Drugeon, a 24-year-old convert to Islam and member of the Khorasan Group, Fox News has learned.  The drone struck a vehicle traveling in Syria's...

(Reuters) - As Jordan joins a military campaign against Islamic State militants in Syria , tensions in Jerusalem pose a potentially bigger risk to a nation only slightly scathed by the turmoil sweeping the Middle East. The U.S. ally has been alarmed and angered by recent...

(Reuters) - Air strikes by a U.S.-led coalition set up to fight Islamic State targeted the al Qaeda-linked Nusra Front in northwest Syria overnight, an organization that tracks violence in the Syrian civil war reported on Thursday. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights...

  Reporting by Abdullah Al Ghadawi; Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- Colonel Abdel Jabbar al-Akaidi confessed of the difficulty of Kobani’s battle as the Islamic State ISIS controling most of it. He wishes that Kobani’s battle would...

By Mohamed Al Hussein; Translation by Yusra Ahmed AL HASAKAH (Zaman Al Wasl)- Many cases of congenital deformity were recorded, and happened at monthly bases in al-Hasakah province in Eastern North of Syria, medical source confirmed told Zaman...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Founder of the Free Syrian Army, Riad Al Asaad, disclosed that many rebel factions fought with Nusra Front to expel Syria Revolutionaries' Front from Idlib province in response to the amounting abuses of the ‘corrupted group,’ according to...

  (Zaman Al Wasl)- The radical Islamic State of Iraq and Syria agreed to allow people of the stricken tribe of Sheitat returning to their villages in Deir Ezzor province after months of displacement, local source told Zaman al-Wasl. The...

Israeli forces arrested four more Palestinians Wednesday afternoon following clashes in East Jerusalem, the Israeli police have said. Israeli Police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said on Twitter that Israeli forces had arrested four Palestinians while dispersing a protest near...