Libya's U.N.-backed unity government condemned an attack by a newly-formed militia group on eastern military forces close to key oil facilities, as clashes resumed on Sunday for a second day. Fighting erupted south of the coastal town of Ajdabiya on Saturday between military units loyal to...
Egypt's former president Mohamed Mursi was handed another life sentence on Saturday, after a court found him guilty of espionage and leaking state secrets. Mursi, leader of the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood, has already been sentenced in three other cases, including the death penalty for a...
(Eqtsad)-Syrian government has set off alarm bells due to the low turnout of farmers who are do not want to sell their wheat crops to the Grain institution. The manager of plant production in the Ministry of Agriculture revealed in a press statement the marketed amounts so far do not exceed...
Belgian police arrested 12 people suspected of planning new attacks after about 40 houses were searched across the country overnight, the federal prosecutor's office said on Saturday. Europe is on high security alert, with the Euro 2016 soccer tournament underway in neighboring France, after...
Reporting by Abdul Karim Ayoub; Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Eqtsad)- The North countryside of Homs is considered one of the most sources of U.S Dollar for the Central bank in Syria, almost USD 30 thousand go to regime-controlled areas in Hama city daily to be exchanged into Syria...
The United Nations will not disclose to a Saudi Arabia-led coalition sensitive sources of information that led the world body to briefly blacklist it for maiming and killing children in Yemen, a U.N. spokesman said on Wednesday. Saudi U.N. Ambassador Abdallah Al-Mouallimi, in a June 8 letter...
Translation by Rana Abdul (Zaman Al Wasl)- A senior official in European Parliament received the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) Party Leader Salah Demirtas in Brussels on Tuesday. They walked in the corridors of the parliament whose walls carried flags of Kurdish Peoples’ Protection Units YPG...
Syrian authorities on Thursday decided to raise the price of fuel, the official news agency SANA said, including petrol by 40 percent. The minister of internal trade and consumer protection issued the order for the price of a liter of petrol to be increased from 160 to 225 Syrian pounds (about...
A British member of Parliament was shot dead in the street in northern England on Thursday, causing deep shock across Britain and the suspension of campaigning for next week's referendum on the country's EU membership. Jo Cox, 41, a lawmaker for the opposition Labour Party and...
Islamic State is committing the crime of genocide against the Yazidis in Syria and Iraq, seeking to destroy the ethno-religious group of 400,000 people through killings, sexual slavery and other crimes, United Nations investigators said on Thursday. Their report, based on interviews with...
Saudi Arabia's powerful deputy crown prince held a full day of meetings with U.S. lawmakers on Wednesday, part of a visit aimed at restoring frayed ties with Washington and promoting his plan to wean the kingdom away from oil revenue. Mohammed bin Salman, son of Saudi Arabia's King...
Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Eqtsad)- Exporting olive oil to Gulf Countries and Europe led to doubling its price 100% within 3 months. Eqtsad correspondent in Homs reported that the price of one 16-litre-can of olive oil is sold in the north countryside of Homs for SYP (20-25) thousand, while...
Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, threatened on Tuesday to "set fire" to the nuclear deal sealed with world powers if U.S. presidential candidates reneged on the agreement. Presumptive Republican candidate...
The man who killed a policeman and his partner at their home near Paris overnight was part of a recent investigation into a Syria extremist network, police sources said Tuesday. The 25-year-old man, who was shot dead by security forces after repeatedly stabbing the policeman and then killing...
Translation by Rana Abdul (Zaman Al Wasl)- Turkish media reported members of Islamic State active in Turkey purposefully placed empty beer bottles in front of their houses, and purposefully sprayed their breads with beer as a form of deceiving the police and security forces undertaking...
As they mourn friends and partners murdered in the gay nightclub massacre, homosexual men in Orlando are eager to join in the rush of solidarity by donating blood for those victims still clinging to life. But they are angry and frustrated: federal law imposes strict conditions to guard against...
Eritrea's government has accused Ethiopia of launching an attack on its territory, but the extent of the assault was still unclear and there was no immediate response from Ethiopia. Eritrea, which won independence from Ethiopia in 1991, fought a bloody border war with its larger neighbor...
U.S. officials said on Sunday they had seen no immediate evidence of any direct connection between the worst mass shooting in U.S. history and Islamic State or any other foreign extremist group. The two officials, who were familiar with the investigation and spoke on the condition of...
The Iraqi army said on Sunday it had secured the first safe exit route for civilians to leave Islamic State's besieged stronghold Falluja, and a Norwegian aid group said thousands of people had already used it to flee in the first day it was open. Iraq has launched a major operation to...
Iraqi troops attacked ISIS positions south of Mosul Sunday as the U.S.-led coalition intensifies its campaign against the militants on multiple fronts across their self-proclaimed caliphate. Officers involved in the operation said Iraqi forces had advanced in tanks and armored vehicles towards...
