An Islamist rebel group in eastern Syria has beheaded a defected army officer who pledged allegiance to al-Qaeda renegade group the Islamic State in Iraq and Greater Syria (ISIS), a statement said. Shoura al-Mujahideen council said Captain Abu Haroun,...

Syria’s opposition National Coalition leader to visit China on Tuesday, source said. Mr. Ahmed Jarba, who meets the invitation of China’s foreign minister to visit Beijing, is trying to build more ties with Bashar al-Assad’s main ally, especially after a pragmatic statement...

Executive director of National Coalition’s Assistant Coordination Unit (ACU) has resigned after months of ‘skirmishes’ with controversial head Suhair Atassi, sources said. Dr. Osama Kadi told Zaman Alwasl that will keep his post until appointing a...

A car bomb, an apparent suicide attack, exploded in a southern suburb of Beirut populated mainly by Shiites, a security services source said early Tuesday. The explosion happened around midnight local time on Tuesday (2100 GMT on Monday) near an army checkpoint and a cafe where...

(AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL)- The conviction today of three Al Jazeera English journalists accused of “falsifying news” and belonging to or assisting the banned Muslim Brotherhood movement in Egypt is a ferocious attack on media freedom, said Amnesty International.  The three...

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(Translation by Yusra Ahmed) Liwa al-Tobeh, situated in Southern of Aleppo, demanded the National Coalition to return the arms which Ahrar al-Zawiyah have stolen, a source from Liwa al-Tobeh reported to Zaman Alwasl. Earlier, Ahrar Syria Front denied any...

(Reporting by Abdullah Raja; Translation by Dani Murad) TheIraqi Prime Minister, Nuri Kamal al-Maliki has resisted all international and regional calls to work toward reconciling Sunni Arabs and Kurds, instead, he ruled the country according to...

(Reporting by Mamoun Abu Mohamed; Translation by Yusra Ahmed) Syrian regime have since the beginning of Syrian revolution tried to increase the religious differences and provoke the sectarian conflict among Syrians, to come in the end and show west...

BEIRUT (Reuters) - Militant Islamist groups in Syria are recruiting children as young as 15 and sending them into battle after promising them a free education, a Human Rights Watch report said on Monday. The report said the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), which...

BEIRUT (AP) — An al-Qaida breakaway group's seizure of territory in Iraq and Syria has sent tremors across the Middle East, jolting neighboring countries into action over fears that the Islamic militants may set their sights on them next. In Jordan, the army dispatched...

(AFP)- Israel carried out retaliatory air raids on Syrian army positions in the Golan Heights overnight after a teenager on the Israeli side was killed in an attack from Syria, the army said early Monday. "The IDF (Israeli army) targeted nine Syrian army positions in response...

Syrian Parliament Member, Ali al-Sheikh, Sunday killed when an Islamist rebel group detonated his car in central Damascus, rebel statement said. The media center of The Islamic Union of Levant Soldiers, based in Eastern Ghouta, said the operation had...

  (The Jerusalem Post)- Targets hit by Israeli forces included a Syrian Army command post; missile originally fired from Syrian territory through the border fence, kills 14 year-old Israeli son of Defense Ministry contractor. The Israeli jets...

CAIRO (AP) — Arab countries should resist funding Sunni fighters in what is turning into a cross-border war between Iraq and Syria because that support eventually could help the fast-spreading insurgency in Iraq, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said Sunday. Kerry said the...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu criticized Sunday the "disgraceful" decision by the US Presbyterian Church to divest from three companies that provide supplies to Israeli forces and settlers in the occupied West Bank. On Friday, a group of church elders and ministers...

A scintillating first-half display gave Algeria's chances of FIFA World Cup progression a huge boost as they beat South Korea 4-2 on Sunday. Vahid Halilhodzic's men ran riot in the opening 45 minutes in Porto Alegre as the South...

(Al Jazeera) -Various fighting factions and the Syrian government reached a cease-fire agreement in a besieged Palestinian refugee camp in Damascus, activists and state media said. If it holds, the agreement in the Yarmouk, the largest of nine Palestinian camps in Syria, could...

(Reuters) - An attack from inside Syria on Sunday killed a 13-year-old Israeli boy on the occupied Golan Heights, the first fatality on Israel's side of the frontier since the Syrian civil war began, relatives and the military said. Israeli tanks fired at Syrian army...

LONDON (Reuters) - The father of a British man who appears in an online video urging Muslims to join the militant group the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) spoke on Saturday of his family's distress at his son's actions. Ahmed Muthana told BBC TV his son Nasser,...