( The New Arab )- An American man who played a key role in anti-capitalist "Occupy" protests was killed fight the Islamic State group outside the Syrian city of Raqqa last week. Robert Grodt - also known by his nom de guerre Demhat Goldman - volunteered as a medic with the Kurdish People's...

When the French and German governments meet on Thursday in a joint cabinet meeting in Paris, the big prize will be any progress harmonizing their tax systems as advances on broader euro zone reform look unlikely. The two countries are due to launch a 1 billion euro ($1.14 billion) fund to...

Syria's government and opposition negotiators could soon hold face-to-face talks for the first time, U.N. mediator Staffan de Mistura said on Thursday, the penultimate day of a round of peace talks in Geneva. He did not expect the opposition High Negotiations Committee (HNC) to unite with...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- U.S.-led airstrikes killed a mother and her two children in Hasaka province while three more people lost their lives in a road mine explosion in the northern countryside, activists said Thursday. The U.S.-led airstrikes struck the village of al-Sada al-Gharbiya,...