Russia and Saudi Arabia Saturday stressed the importance of preserving Syrian and Iraqi territorial integrity after talks in the Western city of Jeddah. Riyadh and Moscow have opposing positions on the conflict in Syria, with Russia backing President Bashar al-Assad and Saudi...

(By Faris al-Rfai; Translation by Dani Murad) Amid the recent accelerated events in Iraq, political analyst Abed Al Rahman Matar confirmed to Zaman Al Wasl, that after the sweeping invasion of the Islamic state of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) to...

(Translation by Yusra Ahmed) Alma Shahhod, who was considered an icon for the Syrian Revolution, as amazing stories were told about her courage and dedication in her work in relief and helping the wounded, died days ago in Amman, alone and ignored....

(Reporting by Sarah Abdul Hai; Translation by Dani Murad) Local sources informed Zaman Alwasl that 325 students left the city of Jaramana, early Friday heading to their hometowns in Eastern Ghouta, after they completed high school exams in all of...

By Kamal Namaa ANBAR, IRAQ(Reuters) - Sunni fighters have seized a border post on the Iraq-Syria frontier, security sources said, smashing a line drawn by colonial powers a century ago in a campaign to create an Islamic Caliphate from the Mediterranean Sea to Iran. The...

Miroslav Klose became the FIFA World Cup's joint leading goalscorer as Germany drew 2-2 with Ghana in a pulsating Group G encounter. The veteran striker came off the bench in the 70th minute in Fortaleza on Saturday and had an...

The security vacuum in the Middle East that has allowed an extremist group to advance through regions of Iraq and Syria would have opened up regardless of whether the United States had decided last year to back moderate rebel forces in war-torn Syria, President Obama said during...

  BEIRUT (AP) — The Syrian army has carried out a series of airstrikes against a town in eastern Syria that was captured by fighters from an al-Qaida breakaway group a day earlier, killing 16 people, activists said Saturday. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human...

Airstrikes in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo killed 4 people on Saturday as helicopter gunships pounded rebel-held neighborhoods, activists said. Early today, 3 people have been killed in Deir Jammal village in Aleppo countryside and one other killed Kallaseh neighborhood....

  In his first appearance at an Iraqi Shi’ite channel since coming back home from Syria, a militia commander Abu Shad al-Jobouri threatened to crush rebels fighting Nouri al-Maliki. Photos of Al-Jobouri in Baghdad, who committed crime against...

 (Reuters) - Five Islamist fighters identified as Australian and British nationals have called on Muslims to join the wars in Syria and Iraq, in a new video released by the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). The online footage, titled "There is No Life Without...

GENEVA (AP) — The countries generating the most refugees are all conflict zones. The three biggest refugee populations are from Afghanistan, Somalia and Syria, which together account for more than half of all the world's refugees, according to an annual report by the Geneva-based U.N....

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov is expected in Saudi Arabia late on Friday for talks about the Syrian conflict, on which Moscow and Riyadh hold diverging views, a Saudi official said. Lavrov will meet Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal on Saturday in the Red Sea...

By Mary Papenfuss SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Ever dreamed of owning a Scud missile? Save your pennies, because one of the last privately owned Scuds in the United States will be auctioned to the public next month. The Scud-A (with inoperable missile) is among more than 100...

TRIPOLI, Lebanon (AP) — A group of Syrian refugees, all former professional soccer players and members of the national youth team in the war-wrecked country, came together in neighboring Lebanon over the past year to execute an ambitious task: Form an opposition team in exile that...

Iran's World Cup clash with Lionel Messi's Argentina in Belo Horizonte is the most "eagerly anticipated" in the country's history, coach Carlos Queiroz said Friday. And the Portuguese, who has revealed he will leave the job after the World Cup, insisted his Asian minnows...

Vicente del Bosque has said he will wait to decide whether to lead his side's defence of the European Championships. Spain coach Vicente del Bosque has said he will wait to decide whether to lead his side's defence of the European Championships after crashing out of the World...

Italy must step up the pace against Uruguay or face a second consecutive World Cup exit at the group phase. Italy must step up the pace against Uruguay or face a second consecutive World Cup exit at the group phase, coach Cesare Prandelli warned Friday after his side's shock...

France are on the brink of reaching the World Cup last 16 after their emphatic 5-2 win over Switzerland. France are on the brink of reaching the World Cup last 16 after their emphatic 5-2 win over Switzerland on Friday kept them in control of Group E. The French backed...

(Reporting by Ahmad Primo; Translation by Yusra Ahmed) The Turkish government has agreed on equalizing and recognition of the Secondary certificate given by the National Coalition last year what may allow 6000 Syrian students would be able to...