BEIRUT, LEBANON- The daughter of two anti-regime activists who was born in a Syrian jail 26 years ago has been arrested on her return from a brief trip abroad, a monitor said Tuesday. "Maria Bahjar...

BEIRUT, LEBANON- Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah made a rare public appearance on Monday in the Lebanese capital's southern suburbs, addressing thousands of his supporters ahead of the Shiite Ashura...

BAGHDAD, IRAQ, Salam Faraj and Ammar Karim- The Islamic State group has carried out a fresh wave of mass killings, officials said Sunday, executing more than 200 members of an Iraqi tribe which took...

BEIRUT, LEBANON, Mohamad Ali Harissi- Outside Lebanon's government headquarters, where relatives of soldiers and police captured by jihadists have held a weeks-long sit-in, a message on a photograph...

ISTANBUL, TURKEY, Stuart Williams and Camille Antunes- Thousands of people on Saturday took to the streets of Turkey and major European cities in a show of solidarity with the mainly Kurdish Syrian...

SURUC, TURKEY, Mohamad Al Ghandour with Sara Hussein in Beirut- Iraqi peshmerga fighters prepared Saturday to join the fight against jihadists for the Syrian border town of Kobane, lifting the...

WASHINGTON, US- US officers are drafting plans to deploy American military advisers to Iraq's western Anbar province and to help arm Sunni tribes to fight Islamic State jihadists, officials said...

UNITED NATIONS, US- UN peace envoy Staffan de Mistura proposed Thursday setting up so-called "freeze zones" in war-torn Syria to suspend fighting in some areas and allow humanitarian aid to be...

SANLIURFA, TURKEY, Fulya Ozerkan with Mohamad Ali Harissi in Beirut- Crowds of flag-waving Kurds greeted Iraqi peshmerga forces travelling through Turkey Wednesday to join rebel fighters reinforcing...