Belgium Friday opened a tender for the replacement of its ageing U.S.-built F-16 jet fighter fleet, a contract potentially worth 15 billion euros over its 40-year lifespan. "The current 54 F-16 fighters will be replaced by 34 new multi-role aircraft," the ministry of defense said, arguing...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Hundreds of  people rallied across Syria on Friday commemorating the 6th anniversary of the Syrian Revolution. Activists surfaced on social media videos of a demonstration in Marret al-Nu'man in the southern countryside of Idlib, where the prominent vocal supporter and...

German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel questioned how Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan would know that an arrested German-Turkish journalist was a spy before he went on trial. Relations between Ankara and Berlin have been strained in recent weeks after Deniz Yucel, a journalist for German...

The head of the Syrian Kurdish YPG militia said a U.S.-backed assault to drive Islamic State from its de-facto capital Raqqa would begin at the start of April and the YPG would be taking part, despite fierce opposition from neighboring Turkey. A spokesman for the U.S. Pentagon, Navy...