(Reuters) - The United States does not expect Syrian rebels it plans to train to fight Islamic State militants to also take on President Bashar al-Assad's forces, but sees them as a crucial part of a political solution to end the war, a senior U.S. official said. The United...

(Reuters) - A suicide car bomber killed about 20 Houthi fighters in central Yemen late on Sunday including a prominent tribal leader who had just defected to the Shi'ite Muslims' side, tribal sources said. There was no immediate claim of responsibility nor confirmation of the...

(Reuters) - Iraqi Kurdish forces will not engage in ground fighting in the Syrian town of Kobani but provide artillery support for fellow Kurds fending off Islamic State militants there, a Kurdish spokesman said on Sunday. Islamic State fighters have been trying to capture...

(Reuters) - Leading Tunisian secular party Nidaa Tounes has won more than 80 seats in an election for the new 217-member parliament against 67 seats for Islamist party Ennahda, a party source, citing a preliminary ballot count, said on Monday. Election authorities are...

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   (Zaman Al Wasl)- It has been one month since the Political Commission of the National Coalition asked its delegation to Saudi Arabia to deliver $700,000 was granted by the kingdom to the opposition group.  Zaman al-Wasl source said just the NC deputy, Mohamed Qaddah, had...

  Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl Leaks)- Syrian regime continues arresting and observing Syrians, especially Sunni young men in different areas in the country. Zaman al-Wasl obtained a list of people wanted by Syrian regime’s...

TRIPOLI, Lebanon: Two rigged cars were seized by the Lebanese Army during early morning raids Sunday in north Lebanon as the military regained control over the northern district of Minyeh, security sources told The Daily Star . The Army in a statement said it confiscated two...

(AFP)- Syrian government airstrikes on two rebel-held areas of the central province of Homs killed at least 25 civilians, 11 of them children, a monitoring group said on Sunday. Sixteen members of a single family were among 18 people killed in raids late-Saturday on the town of...

(Reuters) - The Canadian citizen who police contend shot dead a soldier at the nation's war memorial before charging into Parliament had intended to travel to Saudi Arabia, not Syria, his mother said in a letter to a news agency published on Saturday. The Royal Canadian...

(Reuters) - Iranian security forces arrested world-renowned human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh and several others on their way back from a protest on Saturday, her husband said. "While returning from the sit-in outside the Bar Association in Tehran, Nasrin was detained...

(Reuters) - Iraqi government forces and Shi'ite militias seized control of the strategic town of Jurf al-Sakhar near Baghdad from Islamic State on Saturday and Kurdish fighters made gains in the north after heavy coalition air strikes against the Sunni militants. Iraqi troops...

(Reuters) - In the western Tunisian city of Kasserine, campaign posters plastered on walls make plain what many voters want from Sunday's parliamentary election -- jobs, whose scarcity has fueled unrest and militancy. Alongside portraits of would-be lawmakers and party logos,...

(Reuters) - Tunisians elect a new parliament on Sunday as the prospect of a full democracy finally comes within their reach, four years after they cast out autocrat Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali. Tunisia has fared better than neighbors who also ousted their own long-ruling...

(Zaman Al Wasl)-   Six Lebanese soldiers were killed as the army clashed with Islamist gunmen in northern Lebanon for a second day on Saturday, using helicopters to fire rockets in the first such air attack since the war in neighboring Syria...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon says a Marine who died Thursday in a noncombat incident in Baghdad was the second U.S. military death associated with the campaign against the Islamic State group in Iraq and Syria. The Marine was identified as 19-year-old Lance Cpl. Sean P. Neal of...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States and its allies conducted 22 air strikes against Islamic State forces in Iraq on Friday and Saturday, the U.S. Central Command said. U.S. warplanes also destroyed an Islamic State artillery piece near Kobani, Syria, officials...

BEIRUT: Syrian rebels fought fierce clashes with loyalist troops Saturday as they tried to secure their supply line to Aleppo against advances by the army, an activist group said. The clashes in the divided area of Handarat just north of Aleppo, came a day after fighting that...

ARBIL, Iraq, Oct 25 (Reuters) - Kurdish regional forces retook the northern Iraqi town of Zumar and several nearby villages from Islamic State insurgents on Saturday, security sources said. A Kurdish intelligence officer in Zumar said peshmerga forces had...

By Zaman Staff; Translation by Yusra Ahmed ANKARA-(Zaman Al Wasl)- Turkey solely to create a “safe zone” to the North of Syria, to face the expected new influx of Syrian refugees, as a result of the ongoing fighting with regime and ISIS, and closure...