(Reuters) - Sunni insurgents seized a mainly ethnic Turkmen city in northwestern Iraq on Sunday after heavy fighting, solidifying their grip on the north after a lightning offensive that threatens to dismember Iraq. Residents reached by telephone in the city of Tal Afar said it...

(Reporting by Faris al-Rifai; Translation by Yusra Ahmed) Alma Shahhod, the well known activist, passed away yesterday after long battle with illness and injuries, in Amman, Jordan. Alma was considered an icon for the Syrian Revolution,...

BAGHDAD (AP) — As the Iraqi government bolstered Baghdad's defenses Sunday, the Islamic militant group that captured two major cities last week posted graphic photos that appeared to show its fighters massacring dozens of captured Iraqi soldiers. The pictures on a militant website...

Baghdad, June 15 (IANS) Kurdish forces took control of a border crossing point with Syria, as Iraqi security forces fought insurgent groups trying to seize an ethnically mixed city in the country's northern province of Nineveh, military sources said Sunday. The Kurdish forces,...

  Adnan Qassar, Captain of the Syrian Equestrian team, who was detained in 1993, has been freed, activists and media outlets reported. Previous Interview with Qassar published on May 29 2013 Exclusive Interview with Assad's rival Adnan Qassar...

By Abdullah Raja; Translation by Dani Murad In an exclusive interview with Zaman Alwasl , the Defense Minister for Syria's interim government, Asaad Mustafa, said that his days as a defense minister was no doubt the most difficult part of his life, pointing out that he resigned...

BEIRUT (Reuters): Syrian government forces, assisted by Hezbollah, have retaken the village of Kasab on the border with Turkey and in the coastal heartland of President Bashar Assad's Alawite minority sect, an activist group and state media said. The withdrawal of most rebel...

  By Tulay Karadeniz ANKARA (Reuters) - Diplomats and soldiers trapped inside Turkey's consulate in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul had no option but to surrender this week after hundreds of heavily armed Islamist militants surrounded the building, the foreign ministry...

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 (Writing by Abdullah Raja; Transation by Yusra Ahmed) ISTANBUL-(Zaman Alwasl)- If Ahmad Jarba, the President of the National Coalition, and Mostafa Sabbagh, the former Secretary General left the competition for the Coalition presidency...

BEIRUT: One of the few remaining hospitals in rebel-held Aleppo will be forced to close its doors at the end of the month, after a major international NGO unexpectedly withdrew funding for the facility, leaving half a million people with access to only rudimentary field...

French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve Saturday ordered with "the absolute urgency", the expulsion of a Tunisian man accused of recruiting young French nationals to join fighting in Syria. Following "the threat that his presence posed to public safety and security of the state,"...

  Nine top officers from the moderate Free Syrian Army resigned Saturday over shortages and mismanagement of military aid from donor countries to their uprising against President Bashar Assad. "We seek your (the rebels') forgiveness in...

(Zaman Alwasl)- In a statement posted Online, rebels of the Southern Front claimed taking full control of strategic hill in Daraa province, leaving dozens dead. Activists said nearly 100 soldiers of forces loyal to Bashar al-Assad have been killed...

Pro-Russian separatists shot down an army transport plane in east Ukraine on Saturday, killing 49 servicemen and dealing a blow to a military campaign to defeat the rebels and hold the country together. President Petro Poroshenko summoned his security chiefs for consultations and...

    A barrel bomb attacks targeting Anadan town in Northern Aleppo countryside killed 20 people and wounded dozens on Saturday, local activists told Zaman Alwasl. Activists expected an increasing number of dead due to the violent shelling which has reduced entire...

(AFP)- A bomb attack targeting a weapons bazaar in eastern Syria close to the Iraqi border killed 30 "terrorists" on Saturday, state television reported. "A big explosion hits a terrorist arms market in Mayadeen, killing 30 terrorists and wounding dozens of others," the...

(Translation by Yusra Ahmed) Sources reported to Zaman Alwasl that consequences of publishing the leaked documents about Mosib Salameh’s Shabiha in Salamiyah, were severe and dangerous, as the big leaders have arrested...

By Raed Omari | Al Arabiya News, Amman| With Iraq's major cities falling like dominoes to militants under the black banners of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) and with al-Qaeda's affiliate turning from a "virtual" to a "real" state, nearby Jordan has to be...

Three Israeli teenagers have gone missing near a West Bank settlement, the army said Friday, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he held the Palestinian leadership responsible for their safety. “The IDF (Israeli military) confirms three teenagers are currently missing,” an...