A US-backed Kurdish-Arab alliance is advancing against ISIS in the key town of Tabqa near the extremist bastion of Raqqa in northern Syria, a monitor said Sunday. The Syrian Democratic Forces now control at least 40 percent of the town of Tabqa, and more than half of its heart, the Old City,...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservative Christian Democrats have opened a seven-point lead over the centre-left Social Democrats five months ahead of the Sept. 24 election, according to a poll on Sunday in the Bild am Sonntag newspaper. The Emnid institute survey found the Christian...

( The New Arab )- Zouzfana, a Syrian baby girl, was born on Sunday night along the Algerian-Moroccan border near Mount Tagla in cruel weather conditions, with temperatures nigh on 40 degrees Celsius. The mother went into a sudden labour immediately after she was brought to the border region....

South Korea said Washington had reaffirmed it would shoulder the cost of deploying the THAAD anti-missile system, days after U.S. President Donald Trump said Seoul should pay for the $1-billion system designed to defend against nuclear-armed North Korea. In a telephone call on Sunday,...