Tekoshin stands on a mountain in north Iraq with a rifle slung over her shoulder and a grenade tucked into her belt, facing jihadists in "a struggle to liberate women". Women have been fighting alongside men in the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) to wrest Mount Makhmur in...

REDIPUGLIA Italy (Reuters) - Pope Francis said on Saturday the spate of conflicts around the globe today were effectively a "piecemeal" Third World War, condemning the arms trade and "plotters of terrorism" sowing death and destruction. "Humanity needs to weep and this is the...

The secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council accused the United States on Saturday of violating the sovereignty of nations on the "pretext of fighting terrorism" in Iraq and Syria. "On the pretext of fighting terrorism, the United States want to pursue their...

The shortcomings of the Iraqi military, which withered under a June militant onslaught and relies on Shiite militias for support, pose a significant challenge to international efforts against brutal jihadists. President Barack Obama has announced an expanded campaign of American...

Secretary of State John Kerry held talks in Egypt on Saturday on the latest leg of a regional tour aimed at forging a coalition for a US-led war on jihadists in Iraq and Syria. Egypt's formidable army is unlikely to take part in military action against the Islamic State...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Al Qaeda's Syria wing Nusra Front and other Islamist fighters have taken full control of a border line dividing Syria from the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights after capturing many villages in the area, activists said. The fighters,...

With momentum building for international military action against Islamist extremists in Syria, the United States reiterated Friday it will not coordinate with strongman Bashar al-Assad in the effort. "The answer to the security challenges is not the Assad regime," State...

  (Zaman Al Wasl) – The death toll of Syrian forces airstrikes on Douma in four days has topped 120 people, a third of them children, with more than 170 wounded, Medical Center of the rebel-held city northeast Damascus said. Basher al-Assad’s...

  (Zaman Al Wasl)- Commander of United Military Command in Eastern Ghouta near Damascus, said he will execute regime army pilots, who were held captive by rebels, in response to Douma massacre, according to a video-statement posted online. Zahran...

(Zaman Al Wasl)-   Saudi Arabia to host training camps for at least 10000 Syrian fighters in border city with Iraq and Jordan and 2 hours away from Syrian southern city of Daraa, expert says.   The kingdom has agreed to host...

(Reuters) - Around 100 militants who fought with rebel groups in Syria and Iraq have returned to France , requiring "massive" resources for surveillance and other security measures to prevent attacks, a French lawmaker said on Friday. Thousands of Western volunteers have...

(Reuters) - Iraq's parliament speaker Salim al-Jabouri has told U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry that air strikes on Islamic State should not kill civilians, the speaker said to Reuters in an interview. President Barack Obama has promised to destroy the Islamist militants...

(Reuters) - Dozens of reserve soldiers from Israel's top electronic surveillance unit say they will no longer spy on Palestinians living under occupation, an unprecedented rebuke to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's security policies. The protest letter signed by 43...

(Reuters) - By striking Islamic State in Syria , the United States would be weakening one of President Bashar al-Assad's major enemies. But the new U.S. strategy may still unnerve Assad by helping other opponents determined to overthrow him. The U.S. strategy for tackling...

Reporting by Maher Radwan; Translation by Yusra Ahmed HOMS (Zaman Al Wasl)- Director of opposition Interim Directorate of Education revealed to Zaman al-Wasl that since its foundation in May this year, it relies on only two people, the Director and...

DAMASCUS (NBC News) — Syria has “no reservations” about U.S. airstrikes against ISIS and wants to team up with Washington to tackle the militants, the country’s deputy foreign minister told NBC News. Faisal Mekdad called Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad “a natural ally” for...

(Zaman Al Wasl) – Syrian regime airstrikes on Douma, a rebel-held city northeast Damascus, killed at least 20 people, including 4 children and a woman, on Thursday, a monitoring group said. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a...

  (Zaman Al Wasl)- Unknown armed group on Thursday has killed a rebel commander and Syrian journalist in Marrat al-Nu’man in the eastern countryside of Idlib province, source told Zaman al-Wasl. Hussein al-Qasim, commander of ‘Ashab al-Yameen’...

PARIS (AP) — French authorities have arrested a man suspected of being one of the top recruiters of young jihadis for the civil war in Syria, the Interior Ministry said Thursday, describing him as "a particularly dangerous individual." Mourad Fares, 30, was arrested Wednesday...

An Iraqi journalist has been kidnapped by Islamic State militants who are threatening to behead him if he refuses to work for them, media watchdog Reporters Without Borders (RSF) warned Thursday. Raad Mohammed al-Azzawi, a cameraman, was taken prisoner on September 7 in Samarra,...