Syrian and Russian warplanes bombed rebel-held areas in Aleppo and Idlib province overnight, activists said, a day after Moscow announced a fresh offensive against opponents of its Damascus ally. "Russian military planes were seen all night until morning in several regions of Idlib" in...

The head of a leading civil rights organization has urged Muslim Americans to "stay strong" following the election of Donald Trump. Trump made a number of Islamophobic remarks during his presidential campaign, including his infamous demand that the U.S. close its borders to all Muslims...

Clashes between Palestinian security forces and gunmen erupted in the West Bank city of Nablus Wednesday, killing a woman, medics said, as concern grows over intra-Palestinian violence. The 39-year-old was said to have been killed in the old city of Nablus, in the north of the occupied West...

The Kurdish YPG militia will pull its forces from the Syrian city of Manbij and withdraw east of the Euphrates River in order to participate in the campaign to liberate the ISIS stronghold of Raqqa, it said in a statement. U.S. special envoy Brett McGurk described the move as a "milestone",...

Turkish-backed rebels are just 2 km (1.25 miles) from the northern Syrian city of al Bab and are expected to take it from ISIS quickly despite some resistance, Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said Wednesday. The rebels said Tuesday they had taken Qabasin, several km northeast of al Bab, to...

Syria's Bashar al-Assad said in an interview aired on Tuesday that Donald Trump will be a "natural ally" if the US president-elect fulfils his pledge to fight "terrorists". In his first reaction to Trump's election victory last week, the Syrian president struck a note of caution and said he...

 The United States on Tuesday strongly condemned Russia's renewed bombing campaign in Syria and warned that strikes on civilian targets break international law. State Department spokeswoman Elizabeth Trudeau said Washington had received reports that the latest Russian and Syrian regime...

Hundreds of demonstrators are gathering outside the Supreme Court to protest Donald Trump's election. They are mostly young people who appear to have walked out of school to protest. They are carrying signs that read "Black Lives Matter" and "Not My President." Another signs says "DCPS...

Kenya destroyed some 5,250 illegal firearms by fire on Tuesday as part of efforts to fight crimes like cattle rustling, carjackings and to eliminate threats from terrorism. The burning destroyed weapons confiscated by law enforcement officials or voluntarily surrendered to agents collecting...

Several thousand Belgian military personnel Tuesday marched in the streets of Brussels over a rise in the pension age, at times clashing with police. Authorities said 8,500 off-duty soldiers protested in the historic center of the city, with riot police firing water cannon after receiving...

Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika returned home Tuesday from a trip to France where he underwent medical checks, his office said. Bouteflika suffered a stroke in 2013, weakening his mobility and forcing him to work from his residence in Zeralda, west of Algiers. The 79-year-old...

At least 15 civilians were injured on Tuesday when a car bomb rocked Libya’s eastern city of Benghazi, according to a local security source.  "A car bomb was detonated by an unidentified attacker outside Budizirah Park near the city’s eastern entrance," Interior Ministry spokesman Walid...

(CNN)- German authorities have banned an Islamist organization that they say is responsible for inspiring 140 youths to join the Syria conflict. Germany Interior minister Thomas de Maiziere announced the ban on Tuesday after police carried out dawn raids on around 200 targets connected to...

(Time)- Russia announced a major new air offensive in Syria on Tuesday as opposition activists on the ground reported that the first airstrikes in nearly a month struck the besieged, rebel-held parts of the northern Syrian city of Aleppo. According to activists, between four and 10 people...

Seven Iraqi refugees were burnt to death Monday in the northern province of Kirkuk, according to an Iraqi official. A tent caught fire in the Layan refugee camp in the southeastern parts of Kirkuk, killing a father and his six children, the mayor of the northern city of Baiji, Mohamed...

The Turkish Red Crescent is boosting its humanitarian aid to Jarabulus, Syria and northern Iraq, and so far has sent about 450 trucks of materials to Mosul, areas wracked by ongoing or recent conflict, the group’s head Kerem Kinik told Anadolu Agency on Tuesday. The Turkish Red Crescent is...

(The Washington Times)- Hezbollah’s terrorism finance operations are thriving across Latin America months after the Drug Enforcement Administration linked the Iran-backed Lebanese militant group to drug cartels in the region, U.S. lawmakers were told this week. Former DEA operations chief...

Hundreds of Iraqi civilians lined up on Tuesday for food in eastern neighborhoods of Mosul recently retaken from ISIS, as rations ran low, an Iraqi officer said. Maj. Salam al-Obeidi says some 700 residents gathered in three areas of the Zahra and Qadisiya neighborhoods, the latter of which...

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said Tuesday the military alliance wanted dialogue with Russia, after U.S. president-elect Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin agreed Monday to work towards "constructive cooperation". "The message from NATO has been that we want dialogue...

Turkey-backed rebels are nearing the Syrian city of al-Bab and the area will be cleared of ISIS militants soon, Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim said Tuesday. Yildirim made the comment to members of his ruling AK Party in parliament in a speech shown live on state broadcaster TRT...