Twin blasts in the northwestern  Pakistan  city of Peshawar killed 33 people and wounded 70 on Sunday, a week after two bombings at a church in the frontier city killed scores, police and hospital authorities said. Islamist violence has been on the rise in Pakistan in...

Tunisia’s governing Islamist party, Ennahda, thrust into power by the Arab Spring, has agreed to step down after months of political wrangling with a hard-bargaining opposition. In three weeks, the Ennahda-led government is to hand over power to an independent caretaker government...

Gunmen killed at least 26 people on Sunday in an attack on a college in northeast Nigeria, a hospital source said, in a region where Islamist militants have targeted schools and universities. Islamist sect Boko Haram has intensified attacks on civilian targets in recent weeks in reaction...

At least nine people, most of them students, were killed in an air strike that hit a secondary school in the rebel-held Syrian city of Raqqa on Sunday, activists said. Raqqa in northeastern  Syria  has been under the control of insurgents fighting to oust President Bashar...

  Sen. John McCain has hired a controversial Syria analyst who recently was fired by one D.C. organization and resigned from another after it emerged that she inflated her academic credentials.   The Republican senator's office confirmed to Fox News...

  Leader of al-Islam Army, Zahran Alloush, denied today in his Twitter account any relationship with Basher al-Assad-baked businessman Mohamed Hamsho or receiving any funds from the controversial man.  Hours ago 43 brigade and battalion based announced...

Israel's domestic security service says it has arrested a Belgian citizen of Iranian origin who it claims has admitted he was sent to Israel to spy for Iran. A statement by the Shin Bet says Ali Mansouri, who entered Israel under the name Alex Mans, was sent by the Iranian Revolutionary...

Many complaints have been raised in the Ministry of social affairs in regard to violation in distributing aid to people in the coastal areas of Syria. The violation reached to an extent of killing Ali Ballan, the manager of public relation in the ministry. According to...

    Local sources from Azaz reported that Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham “ISIS” has invaded the city in Saturday evening with two tanks and more than 40 pick-ups. Sources pointed out that ISIS sieged the city and arrested number of people accusing them of...

  International chemical weapon troubleshooters will enter war-torn Syria on Tuesday to start one of the biggest and most dangerous disarmament operations ever staged.   With more than 1,000 tonnes of sarin, mustard gas and other banned horror...

Syria's government will not accept any transition peace plan that excludes President Bashar Assad, Foreign Minister Walid al-Moallem has said. He spoke on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly, a day after the Security Council approved a resolution that obliges Syria's...

      For the first time, Abo Anas, Emir of Jabhat al-Nusra in western Dara’a, appeared for public on opposition satellite channel, Free Syrian Army (FSA) TV, nearly 30 minutes to talk about the liberalization of the old border crossing with Jordan....

  Syria is "comfortable" with a UN Security Council resolution on destroying its chemical weapons and will not discuss the future of President Bashar al-Assad, the country's foreign minister said Saturday.   Walid Muallem told reporters the...

Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon has met the President of the National Coalition for the Syrian opposition forces, the UN  has said.   The UN said in a written statement issued on Saturday that Ban underlined to Ahmad al-Jarba the   suffering...

  Assad's security forces arrested ten days ago the young artist, Aliaa Anwar Said, 20-year-old,  near the Lebanese borders, according to cyber activists . No news from the 'daughter of Slamiyeh city, Hama province who supposed to be on the stage of the Higher...

  Media Activist, Morhaf al-Mughahi passed away by Bashar al-Assad's shelling on the city of Deir EzZor yesterday.  The spokesman of Euphrates Revolution  and the prominent photographer of 'Lens Young Deiri' was killed by Assad missiles which pounded...

The UN refugee agency on Friday welcomed this week's announcement by Brazil's National Committee for Refugees (CONARE) of special humanitarian visas for Syrians and other nationals affected by the Syrian conflict and who wish to seek refuge in Brazil. "The decision will help expedite...

Control of Ramtha crossing changes hands after days of fighting that has left 26 soldiers and several rebels dead. Syrian rebels, including members of an al-Qaeda-linked group, have captured a military post on the border with Jordan after four days of fighting, according to an activist...

  Syria's main opposition group has lost its bargaining power ahead of any potential peace conference, after rebels withdrew their support and a UN resolution failed to meet its expectations, Reuters said.   With talks aimed at bringing about an end to...

   Head of the Syrian state-building stream renounce his nomination by western diplomats for participation in Geneva conference for peace talk over the Syrian conflict, according to Zaman Alwasl correspondent.   The veteran dissident, Louay Hussein,...