Egyptian police officers have shot dead 16 gunmen in two shootouts, the country's Interior Ministry said on Saturday, adding that most of those killed were fugitive militants linked to recent attacks on security forces in Northern Sinai. Egypt faces an Islamist insurgency led by the Islamic...

Iraq will announce imminently a final victory in the nearly nine-month offensive to retake Mosul from jihadists, a US general said Saturday, as celebrations broke out among police forces in the city. The defeat would be the biggest yet for the Islamic State group three years since it seized...

(Zaman Al Wasl)-  In a tent on the edge of al-Qaryeh camp in Arsal, Khaled, a 43-year-old Syrian refugee from the town of Qara in Western Qalamoun has opened his small workshop to repair washing machines and refrigerators for his refugee family in the al-Qaryeh camp. The workshop,...

U.S. President Donald Trump on Saturday said it may take time to rein in North Korea's nuclear ambitions, but expressed confidence that Washington and Beijing could eventually do so. Chinese President Xi Jinping hosted Trump for a meeting just after the G20 summit concluded. Trump has urged...