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Badr Shiite militia posts new photos from Syria

 Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- Notorious Shiite Badr militia, which fights in Syria in support of Bashar al-Assad,  has posted online photos showed its camps and fighters in Syria.   Two weeks ago Zaman Al Wasl revealed in an article...

Arrests, security fears dampen New Year spirit in Europe

Shaken by a year of militant attacks, Europeans will ring in 2016 in subdued fashion on Friday, with soldiers on the streets of Paris, a heightened police presence at Berlin's Brandenburg Gate, and silence across the vast cobbled emptiness of Moscow's Red Square. Bookended by...

Syria ceasefire plan struggles to define a 'terrorist'

A U.N. plan to suspend Syria 's nearly five-year-old civil war calls for listing which militant groups may be fought despite an eventual ceasefire, one of the toughest issues vexing diplomats trying to end the conflict. A U.N. draft discussion paper obtained by Reuters includes...

Germany to increase scrutiny of Syrian asylum applicants

Germany will start holding personal hearings for asylum seekers from Syria as of Friday, an Interior Ministry spokeswoman told Reuters on Thursday, reversing a policy of granting almost automatic refugee status for Syrians. Syrians have since the end of 2014 enjoyed a...