Three U.S. government defense contractors caught in a blast at a Bulgarian military range were testing arms for use in a U.S.-led mission to equip Syrian opposition fighters battling Islamic State, a U.S. military source said on Tuesday. One American contractor was killed and two more were...

Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- Details about the battle of Palmyra in which the Islamic State (ISIS) controlled the city on May 20 are published for the first time. Zaman al-Wasl met A. Solaiman, a military employees who was at his work when the Islamic state controlled Palmyra...

KRUEN, Germany: U.S. President Barack said on Monday he was confident ISIS militants would be driven out of Iraq and defeated but there would be setbacks along the way. In a meeting with Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi at the G7 summit in Germany, Obama said the militants' success in Ramadi...

Turks began voting on Sunday in the closest parliamentary election in more than a decade, one that could pave the way for President Tayyip Erdogan to amass greater power or end 12 years of single-party rule for the AK Party he founded. A deadly bombing in the mainly Kurdish southeast on...