( Daily Star )- Turkey is planning in the next weeks to launch a new cross border military incursion to oust the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) from the Sinjar region of northern Iraq, a report said Thursday. The report in the pro-government Yeni Safak daily was not immediately...

( The New Arab )- Yemeni forces backing the internationally-recognised government are preparing for an assault on a key port town held by Houthi rebels. Fighters aligned to President Abd Rabbo Mansour Hadi and the government's Arab allies are building up around Hodeidah, despite UN urged for...

( Daily Star )- A homeless Russian man lost his hand Thursday when a homemade device placed in a bag near a school exploded in the southern city of Rostov-on-Don, said Russian authorities cited by local media. The explosion came with Russia on high alert just a few days after a bomb on the...

( Daily Star )- France is still seeking a United Nations Security Council resolution on Syria, the country's foreign minister said Thursday, adding that diplomatic negotiations were a priority over possible military action. "France is still seeking to talk with its partners on the Security...

( Daily Star )- Diplomatic and economic measures taken to rein in North Korea's missile program have not had the desired effect, a senior U.S. military commander said Thursday after the North's latest test triggered a flurry of calls among world leaders. U.S President Donald Trump led calls...

(Reuters)- East Libyan forces said Wednesday they had carried out airstrikes and a ground attack on an air base controlled by rivals from the western city of Misrata, prompting a pledge of retaliation from the government in Tripoli. Tamanhent air base, near the city of Sabha, is on a...

( Reuters )- U.S. President Donald Trump accused Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's government of going "beyond a red line" with a poison gas attack on civilians and said his attitude toward Syria and Assad had changed, but gave no indication of how he would respond. Trump said the attack,...

( Reuters )- U.S. President Donald Trump hopes to sign "several more" measures into law before the end of April to roll back Obama-era regulations under the time-limited Congressional Review Act (CRA), a White House official said on Wednesday. Aggressive use by Republicans in Congress of the...

( AFP )- The United States warned Wednesday that it could take unilateral action if the United Nations fails to respond to a suspected chemical attack in Syria that has left scores dead, including children. The warning came from US Ambassador Nikki Haley during an emergency meeting of the UN...

( Daily Star )- U.S. President Donald Trump reaffirmed his vow to destroy the Islamic State group and "protect civilization" during a White House press conference on Wednesday. Speaking after talks with Jordan's King Abdullah, Trump predicted that the campaign against ISIS in Syria and Iraq...

( Reuters )- Akbarzhon Jalilov, the man suspected of blowing up a Russian metro train, represents a new wave of radical Islamists who blend into local society away from existing jihadist movements - making it harder for security forces to stop their attacks. His pages on the Russian...

( Reuters )- Russia denied on Wednesday that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad was to blame for a poison gas attack and said it would continue to back him, widening a rift between the Kremlin and Donald Trump's White House, which initially sought warmer ties. Western countries, including the...

( al-Araby al-Jadeed )- International donors pledged billions of dollars in aid for war-ravaged Syria as the UN Security Council convened on Wednesday for emergency talks over a suspected chemical attack that killed dozens in a rebel-held province. At a donor conference in Brussels, UN...

( Reuters )- A proposed United Nations resolution on a chemical weapons attack in Syria is "unacceptable" for Moscow, Russia's foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova was quoted by Interfax news agency as saying on Wednesday. "We do not believe it is expedient to pass a resolution on...

( Al-Araby Al-Jadeed )- An earthquake measuring 6.1 on the Richter scale struck northeastern Iran near the holy city of Mashhad on Wednesday, killing at least two people as residents fled onto the streets and aftershocks shook the region. The epicentre of the quake appeared to be the Sefid Sang...

Arab League chief Ahmed Aboul Gheit said on Wednesday that a suspected chemical weapons attack on a rebel-held town in Syria that killed 72 people was "a major crime." "Targeting and killing civilians with these prohibited methods is considered a major crime and a barbaric act," Aboul Gheit...

( al-Araby al-Jadeed )- Russia defended its ally Damascus on Wednesday in the face of an international outcry over a chemical attack that killed scores of civilians in the rebel-held town of Khan Sheikhun, saying a Syrian airstrike hit a "terrorist warehouse". "According to the objective...

( The New Arab )- All evidence points to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad being behind the chemical weapons attack which left more than 70 dead in a rebel-held town, British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson said on Wednesday. "All the evidence I have seen suggests this was the Assad regime......

At least 31 people were killed, including 14 police officers, and more than 40 wounded in attacks overnight by ISIS militants in the northern Iraqi city of Tikrit, security and medical sources said on Wednesday. The militants wore police uniforms and used a police vehicle to enter the city,...

 North Korea test-fired a ballistic missile into the sea off its east coast on Wednesday, South Korea's military said, ahead of a summit between U.S. and Chinese leaders who are set to discuss Pyongyang's increasingly defiant arms program. The missile flew about 60 km (40 miles) from...