FIFA has charged Luis Suarez with biting Italy defender Giorgio Chiellini in the teams' World Cup match, a process that could lead to the Uruguay player being banned from international competition for up to two years. Football's governing body said on Wednesday that...

(Zaman Alwasl)- Main rebel group in Syria’s Eastern Ghouta warned in statement issued Tuesday of the Islamic State of Iraq and Greater Syria (ISIS). The Islamic Union of Levant Soldiers (dubbed: Ajnad al-Sham) urged all Islamist rebel factions in the...

DUBAI (Reuters) - The al Qaeda-linked Abdullah Azzam Brigades had urged Lebanese Sunni Muslims to attack the Iranian-backed Shi'ite militant group Hezbollah a day before Wednesday's suicide bombing in central Beirut. No claims of responsibility have been made for the attack...

(Translation by Dani Murad) Many recent events have ignited the long-simmering anger against The Islamic State of Iraq and The Levant (ISIL), whose violations against the Syrian revolution have reached intolerable degree, and recently sources informed...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Among all countries swept by the Arab Spring uprisings, few today are as dysfunctional as Libya. Heavily armed militias outgun its fledgling army. A renegade former general has launched a purge of radical Islamists. Weapons looted from arsenals of ousted...

BEIRUT, June 25 (Reuters) - A Lebanese army intelligence unit has arrested five men suspected of planning to assassinate senior security officials in the north of the country, the army said on Wednesday, after two deadly bombings struck Lebanon in three days. It said the five...

Sydney, June 25 (IANS) The Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) and other spy agencies will be given more powers under a new proposal as fears grow over threats to national security from Australians fighting with terrorist groups in Iraq and Syria. Attorney...

BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syria's al Qaeda wing has pledged allegiance to rival group the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in a Syrian border town, a monitoring group said, strengthening ISIL's control of both sides of the Syria-Iraq frontier. Fighters from Nusra Front, the...

(Translation by Yusra Ahmed) Mohammed Harith, the Editor of “Step” news, was assaulted and badly beaten by the bodyguard of Ahmad Tu'mah, the Prime Minister in the Interim Government during his visit to the Government’s Headquarter In Gaziantep in...

(Reporting by Cham Mohamed; Translation by Yusra Ahmed) As a reaction to the explosion took place in al-Tayyoneh town two days ago, the Lebanese army for the third time, invaded Arsal town at the Syrian-Lebanese borders, with armed vehicle. The town...

The first of 300 US military advisers are setting up in Baghdad to help the Iraqi army tackle a expanding Sunni rebellion that has swept the country's north and west. The special forces troops landed in the Iraqi capital on Tuesday and were beginning evaluations on Wednesday,...

  The National Coalition appointed Mr. Asaad al-Achi as its executive director of Assistant Coordination Unit (ACU) on Wednesday, source said. Al-Achi, 34, based in Scotland, is a Western-educated accountant and  financial...

At least 2,400 Tunisian jihadists are fighting in Syria, most of them rebels affiliated to the radical Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), Tunisia’s interior minister said Monday. “According to what we have gathered, there are 2,400 Tunisians who have gone to Syria to fight...

At least 1,000 people, mainly civilians, have been killed and roughly the same number injured in fighting and other violence in Iraq in June as Sunni militants swept through the north, the United Nations said on Tuesday. Victims include a number of confirmed summary executions...

Brazilian football ace Neymar da Silva Santos, commonly known as Neymar, has recorded a video addressing two young boys who fled from Syria’s civil war. Jumar, 7, and Limar al-Najm, 10 had waited outside the entrance of Neymar’s hotel in Brasilia in an attempt to ask him to...

Brussels, June 24 (IANS) The Council of European Union (EU) decided to impose an asset freeze and travel ban on 12 Syrian government ministers, said a statement published on EU's official website Monday. The EU foreign ministers meeting in Luxemburg agreed to "reinforced" EU...

German prosecutors have filed terrorism charges against a man accused of joining and fighting in Syria for a hard-line Islamic group that has since overrun parts of Iraq. Federal prosecutors said Tuesday that the 20-year-old, identified only as Kreshnik B. in line with German privacy...

Sunni rebels led by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant have taken control of an important oil refinery and have offered Iraqi troops safe passage if they give up their weapons and leave, according to Al Jazeera sources.  Sources in Salheddin province on Tuesday said...

  (Reporting by Cham Mohamed; Translation by Yusra Ahmed) A well informed source from the Joint Chief of Staff of Free Syrian Army , denied all accusations and rumors against the Army Staff, which have been circulated over the...

(Reporting by Faris al-Rifai; Translation by Yusra Ahmed) Syrian regime has recruited many females as informers reporting rebels’ and activists’ news and works, as they are less suspicious when they get close or inside the rebels’ gatherings and groups. Rima...