ANKARA (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry will visit Turkey on Friday as part of a tour of the Middle East to rally efforts to tackle the Islamic State militant group, the Turkish Foreign Ministry said in a statement on Thursday. Turkey is seen as a crucial if...

By Abu Abdullah Al Horani; Translation by Dani Murad (Zaman Al Wasl)- Hundreds of rebel Free Syrian Army (FSA) fighters have decided to abandon the conflict and moved to turkey, because they lost hope in the possibility of victory, while others are...

Arab nations rallied Thursday behind US President Barack Obama's call for expanding operations against jihadists in Iraq and Syria, but Damascus warned it would consider any action on its territory as an attack. Ten states, including heavyweight Saudi Arabia, "agreed to do...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian opposition’s caretaker government on Thursday has dismissed two journalists working in media center over leaks allegations, source told Zaman al-Wasl. Mr. Ahmed To’meh, the outgoing Interim government prime minister, has fired 5...

(Reuters) - Saudi Arabia has agreed to host training camps for moderate Syrian rebels as part of President Barack Obama's broad strategy to combat Islamic State militants who have taken over parts of Syria and Iraq , U.S. officials said on Wednesday. The agreement,...

  GOLAN HEIGHTS, Sept 11 (Reuters) - Dozens of Fijian U.N. peacekeepers, released by al Qaeda-linked group Nusra Front in Syria, arrived in Israeli-held territory on the Golan Heights on Thursday, an Israeli military spokeswoman said. "We opened the border and they...

(Reuters) - Syria's Western-backed National Coalition opposition on Thursday said it was ready to work with the United States against Islamic State militants after President Barack Obama authorised U.S. air strikes for the first time in Syria . Saying it had "long called...

(Reuters) - President Barack Obama told Americans on Wednesday he had authorized U.S. airstrikes for the first time in Syria and more attacks in Iraq in a broad escalation of a campaign against the Islamic State militant group. Obama's decision to launch attacks inside...

  Translation by Yusra Ahmed   (Zaman Al Wasl)- The Shura council of Syria’s Muslim Brotherhood group will discuss a new draft determines Supreme leader’s powers and the electing mechanism, according to copy seen by Zaman al-Wasl....

  (Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime's armed forces in Qalamoun Mountains have made some tactic withdrawals to reinforce the southern front of Damascus amid cancers of imminent offensive by rebels and Islamist Jihadists, Zaman Al Wasl reporter said....

WASHINGTON (AP) — The first President Bush had one, so did President Bill Clinton, and the second President Bush had two. Now, President Barack Obama wants to build a coalition of nations to join the U.S. to combat the threat posed by the Islamic State group in the Middle East and...

WASHINGTON (AP) — In a major reversal, President Barack Obama is moving to deepen the U.S. military role in the volatile Middle East, including training and arming Syrian rebels to fight Islamic State militants and potentially expanding airstrikes across the Iraqi border into Syria....

(Reuters) - The global chemical-weapons watchdog found evidence that chlorine gas was used "systematically and repeatedly" as a weapon in northern Syria , where witnesses described poison barrel bombs crashing into their villages from the sky, the agency said on Wednesday in a...

  (Zaman Al Wasl)- Unknown armed group has assassinated Nusra Front's commander in Jisr al-Shogour near Idlib city on Wednesday. The principal of Sharia in Al-Qaeda Syria’s wing in Jisr al-Shogour were killed when an armed group shot him dead...

(Reuters) - U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon urged President Bashar al-Assad to seek a political solution to Syria's war, saying this would help international efforts against Islamic State militants in Syria and Iraq, al-Hayat newspaper reported on Wednesday. In an...

(Reuters) - Residents in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula said on Wednesday they found a beheaded corpse bearing a note signed by an Islamist militant group linked to the Syria and Iraq-based Islamic State, accusing the victim of being an Israeli spy. The beheading is the eighth...

(IBTimes- Zaid al-Fares)- Like James Foley before him, Steven Sotloff has become the subject of global attention following his tragic beheading at the hands of Islamic State (formerly Isis) militants. The world has united, with total justification, to decry this pointless and...

Translation by Dani Murad (Zaman Al Wasl- Eqtsad)- Much has been written about the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) and why it’s considered one of the world’s richest terrorist groups, as in the previously published article by Eqtsad when the...

BAGHDAD (AP) — With a new Iraqi government finally in place and a growing Mideast consensus on defeating insurgent threats, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry pressed Iraq's Shiite leader on Wednesday to quickly deliver more power to wary Sunnis — or jeopardize any hope of defeating...

(AP) — An ultraconservative Syrian rebel group says it has named new leaders, a day after an explosion killed nearly a dozen of its top members. A spokesman for Ahrar al-Sham said Wednesday in a video statement posted online that Hashem al-Sheik Abu Jaber would assumed overall...