In a brief visit to bombarded Gaza strip, Egypt’s Prime Minister Hisham Kandil denounced on Friday, November 16, Israel’s attacks on the Palestinian territory and said Cairo would try to secure a cease-fire.

The Afghan Taliban welcomed on Friday the release of some of their prisoners as a positive move by Pakistan, while former leaders voiced their doubts about any positive impact from the move, a day after officials confirmed the release of 13 Taliban detainees.

Israeli airstrike, naval gunboats and tanks carried on through dawn in southern Gaza Strip on Thursday morning killing three Palestinians and leaving many injured after targeting the head of military wing of Hamas in a missile strike the previous night.

Local commanders in areas near the Syrian border now have the authority to order attacks on Syrian warplanes and helicopters violating the Turkish border, without waiting for government approval, under the military’s new rules of engagement, Defense Minister İsmet Yılmaz said on Wednesday. The minister’s remarks came as a Syrian warplane bombed the town of […]

A series of car bombs killed at least 14 people across Iraq early on Wednesday, the eve of a Muslim festival to mark the start of the Islamic year, police and hospital sources said.   The holy month of Muharram is of special significance to Shi’ite Muslims, who are a prime target of al Qaeda’s […]

France became the first Western power to recognize a fledgling Syrian opposition coalition fully, stepping out beyond the United States, which said on Wednesday the body must first show its clout inside Syria.

Jordan on Wednesday was hit by more protests and strikes while rioting broke in southern cities and a police station was attacked, security officials said, as anger mounted against a whopping rise in fuel prices.

Fierce battles and army shelling in and around Damascus have killed at least 41 people, mostly civilians, as warplanes launch more air raids on a town on the Turkish border, according to media reports.

Prominent Muslim scholar Sheikh Yusuf Al-Qaradawi has won the ire of Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov for criticizing his Russian allies for supporting Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad’s crackdown on anti-regime protestors.

The Arab League on Monday recognized a newly formed Syrian opposition bloc as “legitimate,” urging more opposition groups to join the coalition.