The Israel Air Force bombed a Syrian base in the Latakia airport in the north of the country on Sunday, Lebanese media reported Monday morning. There are currently no other confirmations of this report, the Israeli Haaretz reported . Israeli security sources...
They were sleepy tree-lined boulevards where people lived and worked, time-worn markets where they came to trade and exquisitely detailed mosques where, throughout the ages, they prayed. All now stand in ruins, ravaged by a war that is not only killing generations of...
Egyptian army chief Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has been promoted to the rank of field marshal, in what security officials told Reuters news agency is a sign he is about to declare his candidacy for the presidency. The army command on Monday discussed Sisi's presidential bid, the AFP news...
Syria's government delegation at peace talks in Geneva presented a declaration of principles for negotiations which did not mention a transition of power and was immediately rejected by the opposition, Syrian television said on Monday. The "declaration of basic principles" said...
Jaish al-Mujahideen fighters have arrested early today the commander (Emir) of the State of Iraq and The Levant in Kafr Hamra town in the western countryside of Aleppo, sources told Zaman Alwasl. Local activists assured that Ahmed Jamal Naief...
Mujahideen of Jaish al Muhajireen wal Ansar (JMA) have stormed regime forces in Ma’arat al-Artiq, west of Kafr Hamra and east of Babis, 82 km near Aleppo, Jihadist group, The Victorious Party In the Land of Ash-Sham, said in a statement posted online. Meanwhile, a faction...
Tunisia's national assembly approved the country's new constitution on Sunday in one of the last steps to establishing full democracy three years after the uprising that toppled autocrat Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali. Just before the constitution vote, Prime Minister Mehdi Jomaa...
The wife of prominent Syrian activist and journalist Mazen Darwish, detained by authorities since February 2012, on Sunday appealed for his release as a "goodwill gesture" amid peace talks in Switzerland. Her call came as Syrian government and...
A coalition member claimed that some opposition delegates to Geneva peace talks have applied for political asylum, according to Zaman Alwasl. The National Council member, Mr. Marwan Hajjo al-Rifai, said in a message had been sent to the coalition leadership, that...
Jihadist social media pages and rebels confirmed killing of Hajji Baker, top commander of the State of Iraq and The Levant (ISIL). A photo of the slain Hajji Baker posted online by rebel group, Mujahedeen of Northern Aleppo countryside, purporting that his real name...
Two days of face-to-face peace talks yielded a narrow and tentative agreement Sunday for women and children trapped in a besieged Syrian city, and the government said President Bashar Assad had no intention of giving up "the keys to Damascus." With little progress to show after...
World leaders and UAE residents have issued messages of support for UAE president Sheikh Khalifa Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, following news of his stroke . UAE state agency WAM reported on Saturday that Sheikh Khalifa, 66, suffered a stroke on Friday morning but was in a stable...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was under fire Sunday from religious lawmakers following a report that his son was dating a non-Jewish woman, media said. Norwegian newspaper Dagen reported that Yair Netanyahu, 23, was dating 25-year-old Norwegian Sandra Leikanger, currently...
The Syrian government has agreed that women and children in the besieged districts of the central city of Homs can leave "immediately", peace envoy Lakhdar Brahimi has said. The government asked that the opposition provide names of other civilians who wish to leave the siege imposed by...
Egypt's interim president, Adly Mansour has announced that Egypt will hold presidential elections before parliamentary, changing a political "road map" laid down after the army overthrew Mohamed Morsi last summer. The long-expected change could pave the way for the swift election of...
Gunmen killed three Egyptian soldiers in an attack on a bus in the Sinai Peninsula on Sunday, the military said, prompting the army to threaten to eliminate the Muslim Brotherhood, which it blames for much of Egypt's political violence. Al-Qaeda inspired Islamist militant groups based...
Egypt's ambassador and his staff have left Libya for security reasons after the kidnapping of five of their colleagues, the foreign ministry said Sunday. "The ambassador and more than 50 staff and diplomats of the Egyptian embassy left Tripoli on Saturday evening," ministry spokesman...
Face-to-face talks between Syria's warring parties stalled on Sunday over easing the humanitarian crisis, opposition delegates said, deepening doubts over tougher political negotiations which are due to follow. Government and opposition delegations discussed aid and prisoner releases...
Top Syrian government officials have told Al Jazeera that an aid convoy is ready to enter the city of Homs after rival delegations meeting in Geneva agreed on the need for humanitarian access to conflict areas. Bouthaina Shabaan, President Bashar al-Assad's media and political adviser,...
Syria's civil war foes held their first face-to-face meetings on Saturday, launching talks aimed at ending nearly three years of conflict which has killed 130,000 people and destabilized the wider Middle East. Government and opposition delegates faced each other across a...
