Militants have assassinated a top Syrian army general, Jamaa Jamaa, while on duty in eastern Syria, state-run Syrian television has said.
The US department of defense has formally notified the US Congress that American arms manufacturers intend to sell more than US$10 billion (Dh36.7bn) in weapons to the UAE and Saudi Arabia.
A new report says Israel, in the face of international condemnation, has increased it illegal settlement constructions on the Palestinian lands in the occupied West Bank by about 70 percent.
German Filmmaker Peter Giesel and his cameraman were detained and imprisoned in Doha after they tried to investigate the horrendous story of foreign employers in Qatar.
The world's chemical weapons watchdog said Thursday that it had completed nearly half its inspections of Syria's arsenal.
A top Syrian official has said that International peace talks on the Syria conflict could take place on November 23-24.
Washington Post daily has claimed the Turkish-Israeli relationship have become so poisonous that the Turkish government is said to have disclosed to Iranian intelligence the identities of up to 10 Iranians who had been meeting inside Turkey with their Mossad case officers.
A new research has showed that almost half a million deaths in Iraq between 2003 and 2011 were caused by the US-led war and occupation.
Israeli politicians have reacted to reports that the US has been encouraged by Iran's seriousness in the P5+1 nuclear talks in Geneva.
The Turkish military has said it has fired artillery at targets belonging to al-Qaeda-linked terrorists in Syria — in retaliation for a mortar shell that landed close to a Turkish military post near the border.