Rival forces clashed in the Libyan capital Thursday, causing new civilian casualties in the grinding conflict a day after a UN Security Council resolution called for a "lasting ceasefire". The resolution was the council's first since eastern Libya strongman Khalifa Haftar launched an...

   (Zaman Al Wasl)- Iman Layla, a displaced infant form Eastern Ghouta suburbs, died of cold in a makeshifts camp near northern Afrin city, medics said Thursday. Iman was suffering from a respiratory infection due to the cold winter that left the stranded refugees in a tragic...

Germany has called on Russia on Thursday to use its influence on the Syrian regime to stop its offensive in northwestern Syria. “These attacks must be stopped,” German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas said in an exclusive interview with the German daily Suddeutsche Zeitung. “We are now...

A senior Pakistani Taliban commander was killed by a bomb in eastern Afghanistan, militant and intelligence sources told AFP Thursday, the latest such incident to target the group in recent days. Sheharyar Mehsud, chief of a militant faction which is part of the umbrella Tehreek-e-Taliban...