Paris (AFP) - French jets will be able to launch air strikes on Islamic State targets from an aircraft carrier in the eastern Mediterranean from Monday, Defence Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said. "It will be operational from tomorrow," Le Drian told Europe 1 radio on Sunday, nine...

(Translation by Yusra Ahmed) (Zaman Al Wasl)- Statistics showed that Bashar al-Assad's war on Syrian people has caused permanent disability for about 300 thousand Syrians, half of them children under 16 years old. Samira Yousuf, 4-year-old girl from Taldo, the biggest town in al Hola city...

Around 15 people were injured overnight when a grenade was thrown during a festival in the Southern Philippines, according to police and military -- the fifth bombing incident in Central Mindanao in just two weeks. The explosion occurred in the provincial capital of Sultan Kudarat as it...

A Turkish Airlines flight traveling from New York to Istanbul has been diverted to the Canadian east coast city of Halifax due to a "bomb threat", authorities said. Police in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia said on Twitter that the flight TK2 landed safely at Halifax Stanfield...