European shares pulled back Friday with UBS dragging bank stocks lower after posting a drop in full-year profit, while Britain’s biggest supermarket Tesco surged after a 3.7 billion pound ($4.7 billion) takeover deal to buy a supplier. The pan-European STOXX 600 index was down 0.3 percent at...

(Eqtsad)- The fuel crisis has been increased in the northeastern Hasaka province as the powerful PYD militia controls most of the petrol stations. Residents in Hasaka said that long queues of people waiting in front of petrol stations with their containers to receive 30 litres, the allowed...

Jihadists from al Qaeda's former Syria branch and rebels who have recently joined forces against them fought in heavy clashes in the northwest of the country on Friday, a rebel official and a monitoring group said. Fighting between Jabhat Fateh al-Sham, formerly the al Qaeda-affiliated Nusra...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Living conditions in the town of Markada, ISIS last stronghold in Hasaka provicne, have been increasingly deteriorated due to prices hike, blocking roads and fear of targeting trucks coming to ISIS-controlled areas by U.S.-led coalition, activists said. Activist Malaz...