(Zaman Al Wasl)- US-backed Syria Democratic Forces backed by US airstrikes on Monday took 5 villages from the Islamic State northeast Raqqa city, bringing them closer to cutting a road linking two major IS-held cities in the country and closing in on the extremists’ de facto capital. The...

Turkish warplanes launched air strikes against the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) in northern Iraq on Monday, killing 34 militants in two separate bombardments, the military said. The strikes targeted militants in Iraq's Zap region and were conducted shortly after midnight and before...

A trial opened Monday in southern Turkey for 47 people charged with attempting to kill President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on the night of the failed coup while he was vacationing with his family. The suspects - 37 of them former military personnel - face possible life sentences on charges that...

Britain's House of Lords is to begin debating a bill empowering Prime Minister Theresa May to kickstart Brexit -- a potentially tricky test given her Conservatives do not hold a majority there. Discussions in the unelected upper house of parliament get underway after the lower House of...