Two people have been killed after a suicide bomber blew himself up at a Lebanese security checkpoint in the eastern Bekaa Valley, according to officials. Al Jazeera's Rula Amin, reporting from area of the explosion said, that Lebanese security chief Abbas Ibrahim was the target...

* Inclusive government key to ending turmoil in Iraq * Solution needs to come from country's own leaders * "Takes two to tango" to restart Syria peace talks By Dasha Afanasieva ISTANBUL, June 20 (Reuters) - Iraq needs more inclusive governance across...

London, June 20 (IANS) The UN Security Council is failing to maintain international peace and security in conflict zones, Amnesty International said on World Refugee Day Friday. Amnesty urged Security Council members to act more decisively to protect civilians and prevent...

(Translation by Yusra Ahmed) In his comment on the death of Alma Shahhod, one of the most bright icons of Syrian revolution, Zaman Alwasl’s Editor In-Chief, Fathi Bayoud, said: “Ahmad jarba and the coalition must resign from the political work and...

The Opposition Democratic Bloc agreed on Mouaffaq Nyrabia to bid planned Coalition elections next July to succeed Ahmad Jarba , source said. Nyrabia, who represents the faction of veteran secular dissident Michel Kilo, is a former political...

(Translation by Dani Murad) A source with close ties with Aleppo’s southern revolutionary brigades, informed Zaman Alwasl of the neglect that took place in arming that front, indicating that rebels’ retreat from that area was the result of an...

(AFP)- A car bomb killed at least 34 people on Friday in a government-controlled village in the central Syrian province of Hama, state news agency SANA reported. More than 50 people were wounded in the attack in Al-Horra, which was blamed on rebels fighting to overthrow President...

BEIRUT (AP) — An international rights group said Thursday that Kurdish authorities ruling three enclaves in northeastern Syria have committed abuses, including arbitrary arrests of political opponents, and have failed to address abductions and unresolved killings in areas under their...

With Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant fighters, flags and emblems everywhere, there is no mistaking who controls the north Syria city of Raqa. Fighters from ISIL, the jihadist group that is now spearheading an offensive in Iraq, already regard the city that is strategically...

PARIS (AP) — France's president held an emergency meeting Thursday to discuss possible military options for Iraq and Syria, after recent advances by Islamic extremist fighters that have destabilized the region. President Francois Hollande said in a statement afterward that France...

(Reuters) - President   Barack Obama   said on Thursday the United States would send up to 300 military advisers to support Iraqi forces confronting an al Qaeda-splinter group attacking the country and was prepared to take targeted military action if necessary. But the...

(NOW)- Forty Hezbollah fighters were killed Thursday in an ambush in the Syrian flashpoint town of Rankous, near the Lebanese border. A Free Syrian Army member identifying himself as Abu Omar Shatout told NOW that the ambush was carried out in farmland on the outskirts of the town....

(Zaman Alwasl)- Aleppo’s Military Council has agreed on new leadership that includes all moderate fighting factions in the embattled province on Wednesday, sources said. Representatives of Hazm Movement, Mujahidin Army, Division 16, and other rebel...

Two men have been executed over spy charges in Daraya, a south-west outskirt of Syrian capital, rebel statement says. The statement, which issued by Daraya rebel authority, said Shariah Law (the Islamic Law) has been implemented on two spies of...

Around 150 Australians have fought with radical militants in Syria and Iraq, raising fears of a terrorist threat to Australia if the fighters return home, the foreign minister said on Thursday. Foreign Minister Julie Bishop said she had canceled a number...

(Al Arabiya News)- Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s brother, Maher, has had his photo go viral on Twitter after he posed for a snap with a well-known Syrian singer. Maher al-Assad has not stepped into the media spotlight for years and last year, it was rumored that he had died...

Felipe VI has been officially sworn in as the new king of Spain at the country's parliament. His accession to the throne follows the abdication of his father Juan Carlos. The retiring monarch handed over to his son at midnight, in the first royal transition in the country since the...

BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraq asked the U.S. to launch airstrikes to beat back militants holding vast territories across its north, a decision Washington mulled over as insurgents pressed an assault on the country's largest oil refinery. U.S. President Barack Obama on Wednesday briefed...

ANKARA (Reuters) - The number of Syrians who are housed in refugee camps and cities in neighboring Turkey has reached 1.05 million, Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Besir Atalay told a news conference on Thursday. Ankara has maintained an "open border" policy to refugees fleeing...

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said Wednesday terrorism will strike back against the West and other countries that "supported" attacks in Syria and elsewhere in the Middle East. Ever since a revolt broke out in March 2011, Assad has blamed all violence in Syria on a...