Al-Qaeda's general command has disavowed all links with the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), according to a statement posted online. The statement, published late on Sunday, reiterated a previous peremptory statement in which the group's chief Ayman al-Zawahiri ordered...

    The Saudi preacher Abdullah bin Mohammed al-Moheisini has accused the Islamic State of Iraq and The Levant (ISIL) of foiling his Initiative which called for an immediate ceasefire with Islamist rebels after one month of fighting. Al-Moheisini, based in...

Syria’s Muslim Brotherhood says it has no intention to withdraw from the National Coalition over the opposition participation in Geneva II. Mr. Mohammad Riad al-Shaqfeh, the Comptroller General of Islamic movement, said in closed meeting held recently In Istanbul with...

Sporting a bushy beard and clutching a can of Coke, a castaway who says he survived more than a year adrift in the Pacific Ocean arrived in the Marshall Islands capital Majuro on Monday. A male nurse had to help the man previously identified as Jose Ivan down the gangplank of a police...

Iran's foreign minister held rare private talks with his U.S. counterpart on Sunday and said it would be a "disaster" if Tehran did not turn a provisional agreement to defuse a decade-old dispute over its nuclear program into a permanent deal. In a sign of the thawing climate between...

A double bomb attack in Aleppo carried out by al-Qaeda-affiliated group, the Islamic State of Iraq and The Levant  (ISIL), claimed the lives of at least 16 Syrian rebel fighters on Sunday, an NGO said. The attack, which took place in the town of al-Ra'ei, not far from...

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov assured to the key Opposition president his support to a transitional governing body,  Zaman Alwasl’s sources quoted Mr. Ahmad Assi Al Jarba saying. National Coalition  opposition chief  is to visit Moscow on Tuesday at the...

  "I'm gonna tag you in this hideous photo and then unfriend you if you don't stop oversharing and poking me." If you said this to someone 10 years ago, they'd look at you like you were speaking Klingon. Nowadays, you just sound like an active user of social media....

 Syrian government helicopters and warplanes unleashed a wave of airstrikes on more than a dozen opposition-held neighborhoods in the northern city of Aleppo on Sunday, activists said, bringing the death toll to at least 119 people killed in the latest episode of a campaign...

  Following the dramatic rescue of a Syrian baby girl last week, footage has emerged of the fourteen-month-old Ghina Khalil – who had been trapped under layers upon layers of rubble and debris – playing and with no signs of visible injuries. Ghina had been buried under...

The death toll from regime airstrikes on Syria's Aleppo has risen to 85, a monitoring group said Sunday, as the conflict grinds on after 10 days of inconclusive peace talks. The latest fighting came as a suicide car bomb in a Hezbollah stronghold across the border in Lebanon killed...

Syrian opposition activists say military helicopters have dropped barrels packed with explosives in the government's latest air raids on rebel-held areas of the northern city of Aleppo, killing at least 23 people including a family trapped in a burning car. In Aleppo, the raids with...

Adnan Bakkur, Liwaa al-Tawhid commander in Aleppo has been killed in a car bomb blast by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) near the infantry school, north Aleppo, source told Zaman Alwasl. ISIL militants have seized parts of the military base after fierce...

German government has stressed on the need to get more involved in international affairs "Germany must be prepared to become engaged in an earlier and more substantial way," Xinhua quoted Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier as saying Saturday during the Munich Security Conference....

Aid agencies in Syria have evacuated hundreds of people from the rebel-held Damascus suburb of Yarmouk, a government-aligned Palestinian group said on Saturday, in a rare moment of coordination between the government and rebel forces. Granting relief groups access to an estimated...

Washington denied claims by Syria's foreign minister on Saturday that American diplomats had sought to negotiate directly with their Syrian counterparts at last week's 'Geneva 2' peace conference in Switzerland. State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said the United States had offered...

The death toll in Syria's civil war has topped 136,000 after January saw one of the conflict's bloodiest months, an NGO said Saturday, as violence claimed even more lives. But the prospects of a peaceful outcome looked dim after 10 days of talks in Geneva yielded no tangible results...

President Barack Obama plans to travel to Saudi Arabia in March on a mission to smooth tensions with Washington's main Arab ally over U.S. policy on Iran's nuclear program and the civil war in Syria, a newspaper reported. Obama is preparing to meet with King Abdullah for a summit, the...

A State-run website in Iran published photos and names of a number of members of Revolutionary Guards and Basij dispatched by the regime to Syria and killed fighting for the Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad. The website (Iranian University Student News) said those killed had gone from...

A suicide attack targeted the Bekaa town of Hermel on Saturday evening, killing at least three people and wounding 20 others. The attack was claimed by the Syrian al-Qaida-linked group, al-Nusra Front in Lebanon. "An explosion was heard near al-Mabarrat school which is located in...