Saudi Arabia should be held responsible for militant financing and crimes committed by insurgent groups in Iraq, the Baghdad government charged on Tuesday. Comments from Riyadh indicates it is "siding with terrorism", the cabinet said in a statement issued by Prime Minister Nuri...

BEIRUT (AP) — A car bomb exploded in eastern Syria near the border with Iraq on Tuesday, killing at least seven people, including a local rebel commander, opposition activists said. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the blast struck near the offices of...

* War crimes sleuths issue 12th report on regional conflict * ISIL accused of atrocities against all communities * Syrians describe "slowly starving" under air attack By Stephanie Nebehay and Tom Miles GENEVA, June 17 (Reuters) - The Middle East appears on the...

  ALQOSH, Iraq — Over the past decade, Iraqi Christians have fled repeatedly to this ancient mountainside village, seeking refuge from violence, then returning home when the danger eased. Now they are doing it again as Islamic militants rampage across northern Iraq, but this...

Al-Ahad TV cameraman Khaled Ali Hamada was killed today in Diyala, northeast of Baghdad, becoming the first media fatality since the start of an offensive in the north and west of Iraq two weeks ago by Islamist rebels, including the Jihadi group Islamic State in Iraq and Levant...

(AFP)- New clashes erupted in eastern Syria between rebels seeking President Bashar Assad's ouster and a jihadist group that has captured swathes of territory in neighbouring Iraq, a monitor said Tuesday. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Monday night's fighting...

   (Zaman Alwasl)- Head of Deir Ezzor's Military Council Monday escaped an assassination attempt by unknown armed group. Col. Munir Abu Moataz told Zaman Alwasl that a group of of 'Revolution enemies' targeted his car in al-Mohassan...

(Reuters) - President Barack Obama considered options for military action to support Iraq's besieged government on Monday but made no decision on the U.S. response to a Sunni militant onslaught that has threatened to tear the country apart. Obama, who discussed the crisis...

The Syrian regime of President Bashar al-Assad has funded and co-operated with al-Qaeda in a complex double game even as the terrorists fight Damascus, according to new allegations by Western intelligence agencies, rebels and al-Qaeda defectors. Jabhat al-Nusra, and...

BAGHDAD (AP) — Sunni militants captured a strategic northern Iraqi city along the highway to Syria on Monday, sending thousands of residents from an ethnic minority fleeing for safety and moving closer to their goal of linking areas under their control on both sides of the border....

(Reuters) - Thomas Mueller marked his 50th international with a hat-trick as Germany strolled to a 4-0 World Cup victory over a Portugal side reduced to 10 men late in the first half of a disappointingly one-sided Group G match on Monday. It had been expected to be a close...

An airstrike in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo killed 45 people, including 2 women and 5 children,  on Monday as helicopter gunships pounded a rebel-held neighborhood,  activists said in recent death toll. The Britain-based Syrian...

(Zaman Alwasl)- Top commander of pro-regime National Defence Forces has been killed by a landmine explosion near al-Mleiha town, east Damascus, activists said Monday.   Captain. Rudein Ali Issa was NDF leader of Damascus Southern Front. ...

London, (IANS)- Citizen reporters are increasingly getting stories out of remote areas of Syria that are difficult for traditional media to reach during the ongoing conflict, according to data collated for Index on Censorship magazine. The magazine worked with Syria Tracker, an...

MADRID (Reuters) - Spain arrested eight men suspected of recruiting militants for Islamist group ISIL which is waging war in Iraq, including a former fighter in Afghanistan previously detained in Guantanamo Bay, the Interior Ministry said. The men had helped to send recruits...

(Translation by Dani Murad) In order to remove al-Molouk checkpoint in the northern countryside of Homs ,and break the siege imposed on the old neighborhoods of the city, Abu Hatem al-Daheek ,one of the leaders of the armed revolution in Talbissah,...

Young Syrian opposition activists living with the constant dangers of more than three years at war are braving bombardment by government forces and jihadists' threats to watch their favourite World Cup teams. In Raqa province, controlled by powerful jihadist group the Islamic...

  8 Jihadist fighters killed when an Iraqi drone targeted a convoy of al-Qaeda renegade group in the northwest Iraqi city of Tal Afar Sunday, Zaman Alwasl source said. Two fighters from ‘Ahrar al-Tayyaneh revolutionaries,’ Syrian rebel...

(AFP)- Syria has freed after 21 years in jail an ex-horse rider known to have been an equestrian rival of one of President Bashar al-Assad's late brothers, reports said Sunday. The release of Adnan Qassar is part of a wide-reaching amnesty that Assad decreed last week, and has...

Syria's army has been pounding for 24 hours major bases of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant in coordination with the Baghdad government, a monitor said Sunday. The strikes against ISIL -- which has spearheaded a week-long jihadist offensive in Iraq -- have been more...