(Reuters) - Israel launched more air strikes on Gaza on Sunday after taking its military campaign to a new level by flattening a 13-storey apartment tower following a warning to residents to evacuate. Palestinian militants kept up their cross-border rocket fire in what has...

By Nabil Chofan; Translation by Yusra Ahmed AMMAN (Zaman Alwasl)-“we are not here to draw attention of media, I think media has lost its breathtaking and influential effects on public opinion, and became a Platonic complementary not able to reach to...

Reporting by Faris Al Rifai; Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Alwasl)- 112 people, including women and children, from al-Hosn town (Krak des Chevaliers) in Homs province are missing and no information available about them either detained or killed...

Reporting by Abdullah Al Ghadawi (Zaman Alwasl)- At least 14 members of the Islamic State (IS) have been killed and 150 more wounded in the ongoing clashes with the Syrian regime army on Saturday near al-Tabqa military airport in Raqqa province east Syria, a monitoring group said....

The jihadist Al-Nusra Front has posted a video showing kidnapped Lebanese security personnel calling on the Hezbollah movement to withdraw its fighters from Syria. The nine men, who appear to be eight Lebanese policemen and a soldier, are among 24 security forces still in the...

(Reuters) - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas called for an urgent resumption of peace talks on Saturday as violence continued unabated in the Gaza Strip with Israel carrying out air strikes and militants firing rockets. Gaza health officials said five people, including...

  (Zaman Alwasl)- Syrian activists say more than 140, ooo Syrian refugees in the border town of Arsal are facing severe siege imposed by Lebanese government and Hezbollah militia as the humanitarian aid is blocked. The Lebanese government...

From the rescue plane which took them on a one-way journey to France, two Iraqi refugees revealed tales of rape and fear at the hands of Islamic State that forced them to flee their homeland with nothing. Rene, who did not want to give his last name, said the Islamic...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A senior White House official raised the possibility Friday of a broader American military campaign that targets an Islamic extremist group's bases in Syria, saying the U.S would take whatever action is necessary to protect national security. "We're not going to...

(Reuters) - Iraqi Shi'ite militiamen machine gunned minority Sunni Muslims in a village mosque on Friday, killing dozens just as Baghdad was trying to build a cross-community government to fight Sunni militants whose rise has alarmed Western powers. A morgue official in...

  (Zaman Alwasl)- At least 70 members of the Islamic State (IS) Sunni extremist organization have been killed in two days of clashes with the Syrian Army over al-Tabaqa military airport, the only bastion still in the hands of the regime in Raqqa province...

Washington (AFP) - Some 12,000 foreign jihadists from 50 countries, including Americans, have gone to fight in Syria since the conflict began, the US State Department said Thursday. A US official, speaking on condition of anonymity, estimated that more than 100 US citizens have...

(Reuters) - Islamic State militants in Iraq stoned a man to death in the northern city of Mosul after one of their courts sentenced him to die for the crime of adultery, a witness said on Friday. The stoning, which happened on Thursday, was the first known instance of the...

Islamic State cannot be defeated without addressing “both sides of what is essentially at this point a nonexistent border” between Iraq and Syria, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said Thursday. The United States and its allies in the Middle East and beyond need to join...

  (Zaman Alwasl)- The commander of Douma Martyrs brigade in Eastern Ghouta had escaped an assassination attempt last Sunday, rebel source revealed . The source said that Ahmed Taha was escaped death as unknown armed group tired to shoot...

A former academic, Ahmet Davutoglu has served the Justice and Development Party faithfully since 2002, as an adviser to prime ministers Abdullah Gul and Recep Tayyip Erdogan and, for the past five years, as foreign minister. It was in this role that he emerged as one of...

Senior economists admitted that International institutes and credit rating agencies have underestimated Turkey´s growth rate in their earlier reports, as they one by one upgraded growth forecasts for the country in their latest reports. At the beginning...

(Reuters) - Syrian government forces have sent reinforcements to an air base being attacked by Islamic State militants in northeast Syria where no fewer than 30 of the radical group's fighters were killed on Thursday, a group monitoring the violence said. The airbase at Tabqa,...

(Reuters) - A British Muslim leader called for action on Thursday to tackle a jihadi sub-culture after an Islamic State video showed a suspected Briton beheading U.S. journalist James Foley, held hostage in Syria . In Washington, U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said the...

(Reuters) - President Barack Obama told a recent interviewer he did not want the U.S. military to become Iraq's air force. But he may have little choice. Iraq had only a fledgling air force when the United States withdrew in 2011. Washington has agreed to bolster Iraqi air...