BAGHDAD (Reuters) - The video on his phone shows the boy firing a heavy machine gun mounted on a tripod through a hole in a crumbling building, his slender body shaking from the kickback. “We were kind of nervous, not because we are cowards, because it was our first fight and...

RABAT (Reuters) - Morocco has put its security services on high alert after intelligence reports revealed a "serious terror threat" from Islamist militants returning home after fighting in Iraq and Syria, the government said. Hundreds of fighters from Morocco and other Maghreb...

BEIRUT/JERUSALEM, July 11 (Reuters) - Rockets were fired at northern Israel from Lebanon on Friday and Israel's army responded with artillery fire, Lebanese and Israeli military authorities said. Southern Lebanon is a stronghold of Hezbollah, a Shi'ite Muslim group that...

(Reporting by Ma’moon Abu Mohamed; Translation by Dani Murad) In a war that grew out of pro-democracy protests in the summer of 2011, Forces loyal to Bashar al-Assad have used sieges as a war tactic to root out rebel forces from residential areas,...

GAZA/JERUSALEM (Reuters) - At least 78 Palestinians, most of them civilians, have been killed in Israel's Gaza offensive, Palestinian officials said on Thursday as militants in the enclave kept up rocket attacks on Tel Aviv, Jerusalem and other cities. As Israeli officials...

(Zaman Alwasl)- Opposition activists warn of further rifts between rebels ranks in the northern province of Aleppo as regime troops have been making rapid advances since last week. Aleppo’s activists have organized a campaign to mobilize efforts and...

(Zaman Alwasl)-   Islam Army commander in statement circulated online said his fighters had expelled the Islamic State’s militants from Misraba in Eastern Ghouta. Zahran Allosh, commander of Islamic Front’s main unit, said hundreds of radical group fled their...

    (Reporting by Abdullah Raja)   (Zaman Alwasl) – Syrian opposition’s new leader will visit Saudi Arabia next week combined with Free Syria Army leader, well-informed source says. Hadi al-Bahra, the new elected...

(Translation by Yusra Ahmed) Tension prevailed Yarmouk Camp yesterday when a group of young men wanted to sort out their legal situation with Syrian regime, Nusra front did not like that act and shot at people resulted in one injury at least....

  (Translation by Dani Murad) ( Zaman Alwasl )- New leaked documents obtained by Zaman Alwasl reveal the names of “National Defense” and “Shabiha” formations of employees working in the heart of the Syrian capital Damascus, regime’s most important city, since its fall means...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States on Thursday imposed financial sanctions on a Lebanese consumer electronics company, saying it purchased supplies used to develop military drones for the militant Hezbollah movement. Stars Group Holding secretly bought electronics in the...

BERLIN (Reuters) - Spying on allies is a waste of energy, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Thursday when asked about two suspected U.S. spy cases that have come to light in the last few days and caused anger in Germany. "From my point of view, spying on allies... is a...

BEIRUT (AP) — Islamic militants using weapons they recently seized in neighboring Iraq intensified an offensive against Kurdish areas in northern Syria as they fight to expand the territory under their control, activists said Thursday. The clashes came as a Syrian watchdog...

Baghdad, July 10 (IANS) Kurdish ministers in Iraq's capital Baghdad Thursday boycotted the country's cabinet meetings, protesting remarks made earlier by Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki that accused the Kurdish region of being a "base for terrorism", a Kurdish official said. "We...

BEIRUT (Reuters) - The success of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria has emboldened like-minded militants in Lebanon who believe they can emulate it, the interior minister said, confirming the militant Sunni group had now appeared in Beirut for the first time. In an interview...

(Zaman Alwasl)- A day after withdrawal from Aleppo's Sharia Authority, Al Nusra Front is preparing to leave its checkpoints and barracks in Aleppo city, rebel source says. NF, al-Qaeda group in Syria, has called for an urgent meeting on Thursday with...

  (Zaman Alwasl)- Commander of Soqour al-Sham brigade, in statement posted online, called on rebels loyal to the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria in Idlib to surrender and to deliver their weapons in a maximum period of 12 hours. Abu Issa...

  Pictures of smiling locals, tales of life-changing experiences, articles glorifying centuries of heritage and predicting a bright future: if the "caliphate" straddling Iraq and Syria had an airline, Dabiq would be its in-flight magazine. For now, global jihad's latest...

(Al Jazeera)- Hundreds of bombs shake Gaza, leaving 75 dead and hundreds injured, as Palestinian fighters fire rockets into Israel. At least 75 people, including many children, have been killed in the Gaza Strip in two days of Israeli air raids, as Israel's army...

(Zaman Alwasl)-   Islam Army commander in statement circulated online said his fighters had expelled the Islamic State’s militants from Misraba in Eastern Ghouta on Wednesday. Zahran Allosh, commander of Islamic Front’s main unit, said hundreds...