Austria announced Friday it would erect a 3.7-kilometre (2.3-mile) metal fence along its border with Slovenia, in a new blow to the EU's cherished open-border Schengen accord. The barrier, due to be completed in less than six weeks, will be the first fence...

Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- Many German media reports revealed that German Federal Criminal Police (BKA) has opened files for some refugees suspected they were involved in war crimes in Syria. Zaman Al Wasl checked files and found that "BKA" put signs against 10 files for...

The Nour al-Din al-Zenki Movement, a Syrian opposition group, claimed that a Russian warplane targeted Idlib province’s Benin village using a white phosphorous bomb. Yasser al-Yousef, an activist in the movement, told Anadolu Agency late Thursday that the attack left a number of people...

The attack bore all the traits of Islamic State in Iraq. A small unit of militants, armed with Kalashnikov rifles and suicide belts, hit the Tripoli prison just before sunrise. Blasting though a wall, four fighters worked their way through the heavily guarded compound before firing a...