(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian rebels on Monday have thwarted an attack launched by Syrian regime forces and its allied militia National Defense (NDF) on al-Tadamon neighborhood south of Damascus, rebel source told Zaman al-Wasl. Commander of Ansar...

(Reuters) - The International Monetary Fund's bailout program for Ukraine assumes Kiev will be able to get $15.4 billion from talks with its creditors, according to four sources familiar with the IMF's documents. The assumption is necessary to ensure Ukraine's sovereign debt...

(Reuters) - The United States declared Venezuela a national security threat on Monday and ordered sanctions against seven officials from the oil-rich country in the worst bilateral diplomatic dispute since socialist President Nicolas Maduro took office in 2013. U.S. President...

 A young German woman fighting alongside Kurdish forces in Syria was killed over the weekend in clashes with Islamic State fighters, Kurdish officials and a Turkey-based communist group said on Monday. The Kurdish forces, backed by U.S. air strikes and local rebel fighters,...