(Reuters) - An Algerian national was shot dead and a Frenchman was wounded on Wednesday during a scuffle at a checkpoint operated by fighters of the Shi'ite Muslim Houthi group in the southern part of the Yemeni capital Sanaa, a police source said. The source said the...
(Reuters) - A senior al Qaeda official wanted by the United States and a local leader of the militant group's affiliate, Ansar al-Sharia, were killed in a drone strike in central Yemen overnight, tribal sources and a militant said on Wednesday. Nabil al-Dahab, leader of...
(Reuters) - Jordan recalled its ambassador to Israel on Wednesday in protest at an increase in Israeli "violations", including in Jerusalem and its holy sites, the first time it has done so since the countries made peace in 1994, government officials said. Jordan has...
(Reuters) - Three Tunisian soldiers were killed and 12 others were wounded on Wednesday in an attack by suspected Islamist militants on a bus carrying soldiers in Kef near the Algerian border, the Defense Ministry said. The attack came while Tunisia preparing its first free...
(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 13 students were killed and 20 others were wounded on Wednesday when Syrian regime’s mortar bombs pounded their school in al-Qaboun district in Damascus, activists and monitoring group said. Normal 0...
(Reuters) - The number of asylum seekers arriving in Sweden may reach its highest in two decades because of people fleeing Syria and Iraq, whose arrival could push immigration costs close to 1 percent of GDP in a country where tension over new arrivals is rising. The Migration...
(ORYXSA)- Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah removed Culture and Information Minister Abdul Aziz Khoja from his post on Monday, hours after the minister announced the shutting down of a controversial Islamist television channel. However, no link between the two developments has been...
BEIRUT (AFP) - Lebanon's parliament on Wednesday extended its mandate until 2017, a parliamentary source said, once again postponing elections amid political paralysis and security concerns tied to the conflict in neighbouring Syria. "The parliament voted...
(Reuters) - Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu has accused Syrian forces of committing massacres in and around Aleppo and said Turkey would face a major new refugee crisis if Syria's second city were to fall into their hands. As U.S. warplanes bomb Islamic State forces in...
(Reuters) - Saudi Arabia has closed down the offices of a religious television channel accused of fomenting sectarian tension, after at least eight people were killed in an attack on Shi'ite Muslims marking a major religious anniversary. Wesal TV has long been accused of...
(Reuters) - Republican Governor Rick Scott of Florida narrowly won re-election on Tuesday, defeating Democrat Charlie Crist in an expensive contest in which turnout was low in Crist's south Florida stronghold. Scott, 61, addressed supporters in Bonita Springs on the southwest...
BEIRUT (The Daily Star): Nusrt Front has warned Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah of “hidden surprises,” saying the real battle is yet to begin. “Nusra Front in Qalamoun has hidden surprises for the Iranian party [Hezbollah] and the real battle has not yet started,” the...
(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian Opposition’s National Coalition to cooperate with German association specialized in international conflicts to get consultancy regarding its political process in the future. Coalition has invited its members to attend the...
Haj pilgrims from Syria have refused to return home after completing the pilgrimage citing the ongoing political unrest and have appealed for asylum in the Kingdom. With the deadline for leaving the Kingdom having expired, about 1,200 Syrian pilgrims approached the Haj Ministry to...
CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's most active militant group, Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis, denied in a Twitter message on Tuesday that it had pledged allegiance to Islamic State and it distanced itself from a statement that appeared in its name online. A statement purporting...
(Reuters) - A gathering of millions of Shi'ite Muslims at shrines and mosques across Iraq for the Ashoura religious commemoration passed without any major attacks on Tuesday, under tight security imposed for fear of Islamic State bombers. Crowds of hundreds of thousands of...
France's foreign minister has called for the US-led coalition against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) to help rebels in Syria's second city Aleppo hold out against the Damascus regime. Laurent Fabius said on Tuesday that the coalition should not battle...
ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Islamic State militants in Syria forced children as young as 14 to watch videos of beheadings and beat them with cables during six months of captivity, Human Rights Watch said on Tuesday. The Sunni Muslim militants abducted a group...
(Al Jazeera)- Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah has declared "victory" for his movement against self-declared jihadists in Syria as tens of thousands of Shia Muslims gathered in Beirut to commemorate Ashura. The Shia armed group has sent thousands of fighters into neighbouring...
(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime’s Education Ministry decided to halt the salaries of 6,000 teachers in the Kurdish-dominated city of Afrin northern Aleppo, in step to press more pressure on the people of the disputed area, an opposition figure...
