Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Alwasl)- Rebels have arrested a Syrian Christian family on Friday over allegations of cooperation with Russian Intelligence and holding a Russian citizenship in Idlib province,...
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Fighters identified as Islamist militants crossed into Lebanon from Syria on Saturday, triggering an exchange of fire with Lebanese villagers who forced them back across the border, Lebanese security sources and a villager said. The gun battle near the...
Washington, Aug 9 (IANS) President Barack Obama said Saturday that the US air strikes have "successfully destroyed arms and equipment" that terrorists with Islamic State of Iraq and Greater Syria (ISIS) could have used against the Kurdish regional capital of Irbil in Iraq. "We...
(Reuters) - Islamic State insurgents who seized Iraq's biggest dam in an offensive that has caused international consternation have brought in engineers for repairs, witnesses said on Saturday, as nervous Kurds stocked up on arms to defend their enclave nearby. The jihadi...
A Lebanese army soldier died Saturday of wounds sustained in clashes with jihadists near the Syrian border, raising the number of troops killed in the fighting to 18, the army said. The fighting broke out on August 2 when jihadists from Syria attacked army and police posts in...
The radical Islamic State group has arrested at least 25 people in raids carried on al-Shuhail village in Deir Ezzor province, activists said. IS has launched a revenge campaign on tribes stand against it in the eastern countryside of rich-oil...
Since their capture of Iraq's second city of Mosul on June 10, a great deal of attention has been paid to the self-labeled 'Islamic State' and its continuing advance across Iraq. On August 2, Islamic State fighters seized the largely Yazidi town of Sinjar and on August 3, they...
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Former Lebanese Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri, back in Lebanon after over three years in self-imposed exile, on Friday called on lawmakers to elect a president to help ensure the stability of the country. "Electing the president is everyone's responsibility....
(Indo Asian News Service) - At least 13 rebels were killed Friday when the Syrian army pounded their positions in the country's northern region of Jisr al-Shughur, media reports said. The Syrian army forces targeted terrorists' positions near the town of Tal al-Dahab in...
Vatican City, Aug 8 (IANS/EFE) Pope Francis will send Cardinal Fernando Filoni to northern Iraq to express his proximity and solidarity with the people, especially Christians, who are enduring attacks from Sunni jihadis, the Vatican press office said Friday. The former nuncio to...
(Al Jazeera)- The US military has conducted air strikes against Islamic State fighters near the northern Iraqi city of Erbil, the US Defence Department has said. A Pentagon statement said two F/A-18 warplanes dropped 225 kilograms of laser-guided bombs on a mobile artillery...
(Reporting by Abdullah Raja; Translation by Dani Murad) (Zaman Alwasl)- A new scenario is taking place in the Syrian war and possibly a complicated plot due to the mixture of events between eastern and Southern provinces of Syria, between ISIS and...
(Zaman Alwasl- Special)- An accountant, who worked in the Opposition interim government, has been accused of embezzlement over stealing $ 80,000 belongs to the Justice Ministry, well-informed source told Zaman Alwasl. Normal 0...
After a long period of relative calm, Syria's capital is coming under daily mortar and rocket fire from rebels seeking to make the regime ease its attacks on areas they hold near Damascus. "It is in response to regime air raids on rebel districts around Damascus," said Rami...
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Islamist militants holding 19 Lebanese soldiers seized during an incursion into Lebanon said on Friday they had demanded the release of Islamist prisoners in exchange for letting their captives go. Two commanders close to the group holding the soldiers,...
The Islamic state is preparing to overrun Tabqa military airport near Raqa city, a day after seizing control of Regime’s military base, Brigade 93, sources say. Islamic State's momentum has raised fears amid Syrian armed opposition and the...
All Palestinian groups in the Gaza Strip have refused to extend a three-day truce with Israel, the militant Hamas group that dominates the enclave said Friday, as the ceasefire ended. "All the Palestinian factions, including Hamas, have agreed not to renew the ceasefire because...
(Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama said on Thursday he has authorized air strikes against Islamist militants in Iraq to protect American personnel and launched humanitarian assistance to prevent a genocide of members of a religious minority who have fled their homes....
The Islamic State has executed 19 men at Al-Omar oil field which it captured on July 3, a monitoring group said. Most of the men were shot dead, with one of them decapitated, "in one of the bloodiest executions", according to the Britain-based...
Almost three quarters of Syria’s entire chemical stockpile has been destroyed, the world’s chemical weapons watchdog said on Thursday, after another 190 tonnes of agents were incinerated in Britain. “The OPCW confirmed today (Thursday) that 74.2 percent of Syria’s entire...
