A series of videos smuggled out of Syria’s Raqqa shows strict rule of al-Qaeda-linked Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL) in the town which has turned to a new base for the terrorist group.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has slammed a growing boycott movement against his regime’s violent policies against Palestinians, calling it anti-Semitism in a modern guise.
Human Rights Watch has called on Saudi Arabia to end the summary deportations, which risk violating its international obligations not to return anyone to a place where their life or freedom is threatened or where they face other serious harm.
At least four people have been killed and over 103 others wounded after two strong explosions hit a southern suburb of the Lebanese capital, Beirut.
Some British women are travelling to Syria to marry militants fighting against the Syrian government, a new report shows.
Tourists are leaving Egypt after a tourist bus exploded in the Egyptian south Sinai resort town.
Lebanese parliament speaker Nabih Berri has urged Kuwait to keep trying to build bridges between Iran and Saudi Arabia to encourage a rapprochement between two regional heavyweights backing opposite sides in Syria's conflict.
Salim Idriss, the former head of the so-called Free Syrian Army (FSA), has been sacked due to the “paralysis within the military command over the past months.”
The Prince of Wales wore traditional robes and carried a sword as he took part in a ceremony as part of a festival of culture in Saudi Arabia.
Israeli soldiers have fired warning shots into the air close to Lebanese Army troops as they recovered parts of an Israeli drone that crashed in mysterious circumstances, security sources says.