Boko Haram militants launched a daring raid on the military in the northeast Nigerian city of Maiduguri overnight, prompting a 24-hour curfew that shut airspace and cut off roads, the army, state government and eyewitnesses said. Local residents said that hundreds of heavily armed...
Evidence collected by U.N. investigators probing Syrian war crimes implicates President Bashar al-Assad, United Nations human rights chief Navi Pillay said on Monday. Pillay later denied having direct knowledge of their secret list of suspects, but her revealing...
Attacks near Baghdad and northern and western Iraq killed 15 people Monday, the latest deadly violence to rock the country amid fears it is slipping back into all-out sectarian war. Iraq's worst bloodshed since 2008, with more than 6,000 people killed already this year, has forced the...
The Islamic state in Iraq and the Levant posted online a decision to impose a blockade on areas under control of the Democratic Union Party (PYD) in northern Syria. The ISIL’s statement ordered people of ‘Aleppo State’ to prevent entry of food staples, fuel...
The death toll in Syria's conflict has risen to at least 125,835, more than a third of them civilians, but the real figure is probably much higher, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Monday. The pro-opposition monitoring group also appealed to U.N....
An al-Qaeda-linked group said three militants killed in the West Bank by Israeli forces last week were its members, and that their presence there showed that the Islamist network had taken root in the occupied Palestinian territory. ...
Syria’s Democratic Union Party, the country’s most powerful Kurdish group, hopes to create an autonomous Kurdish region in a federal Syria, its chief, Salih Muslim, told AFP in an interview. Speaking during a visit to France, he confirmed that a...
Fada'at Media Limited will launch a new Arabic newspaper soon with electronic and printed versions, according to Zaman Alwasl source. In a statement issued by the new-born media company and UK-based, said that Al-Jadid newspapers (En: The New) comes as...
The U.S. government has begun outfitting a ship in its reserve ready force with equipment to enable it to destroy some of Syria's chemical weapons at sea in the event Washington is asked to assist in the effort, a defense official said on Sunday, according to Rreuters. The Maritime...
Winter is fast approaching in Iraq’s Kurdistan and as heavy rain threatens to exacerbate an already dire situation for the region’s 235,000 Syrian Kurdish refugees, local organizations are fighting a battle against time in an attempt to soften the cold blow of winter. November gave...
Syrian lawyers in rebel-held areas have denounced a circular by Shariah Authority in Aleppo ban practicing the civil law in courts and other legal institutions and eliminating the attorney profession. The Islamic Judiciary group that controls legal matters in Aleppo...
Tens of People have protested against Regime Army in the city of Suweida, south Syria after harassing a young girl by regular soldier. Many young men in the main market square couldn't bear the verbal harassment to their homeland’s girl by the...
5 Islamic groups in video statement announced a new Islamic bloc in Damascus suburbs Yesterday. ‘The Islamic Union for Levant soldiers’ is an alliance consisted The Beloved Mustafa brigades, Capital Armor brigade, Al-Huda Martyrs, Sahaba Battalions and...
Suhair Atassi, vice-president of the National Coalition and the woman who leads Aid and relief file in the key Syrian opposition is facing mounting accusations by Syrian activists over allegations of corruption and mismanagement. More than 25 employees in the Aid Coordination...
Syrian activists say a new government helicopter strike on a rebel-held town near the northern city of Aleppo has killed 20 people, activists said. Sunday's attack is the second reported air attack in as many days on al-Bab, located east of Aleppo, Syria's largest city. On...
Three people were killed overnight in fighting in the north Lebanese city of Tripoli, security sources said on Sunday, raising to nine the death toll in 24 hours of violence fuelled by sectarian tensions over Syria's civil war. The clashes between Tripoli's Alawite minority, which...
European ambassadors and intelligence officials are making discreet trips to Damascus in a bid to resume contacts with the Syrian regime after years of outspoken support for the opposition, diplomats say. "Since May, little by little, we have begun to return, at first cautiously for a...
In recent months, leading diplomats and statesmen from the international community have been logging frequent flier miles and consulting technical treaties in order to curb the use and development of chemical and nuclear weapons in Syria and Iran. While these efforts have seemingly...
Rebel group posted online a photo of an identity card of Russian mercenary working for Moran Security group in Syria, more documents come among the mounting facts of involving the Russian security companies in war-torn country. The...
Syria's regime Prime Minister Wael Halki said on Saturday that Syrian government forces were winning the war with rebels and would not rest while a single enemy fighter remained at large. Maintaining Syria's unyielding response to Western calls for President Bashar al-Assad to step...
