(Zaman Al Wasl) A US-backed Kurdish-Arab alliance is advancing against ISIS in the key town of Tabqa near the extremist bastion of Raqqa in northern Syria, a monitor said Sunday. The Syrian Democratic Forces now control at least 40 percent of the town of Tabqa, and more than half of its...

An Israeli minister said Sunday that 300 Palestinians have agreed to end an almost two-week-old hunger strike launched in protest at the conditions of their detention. The Palestinians, for their part, said 1,500 prisoners were keeping up their fast in Israeli jails. Three hundred hunger...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Residents of al-Shadadi town in northeastern Hasaka province demanded Sunday that the former ISIS stronghold be handed over to a police force and disarmed after an Arab youth was killed by gunmen from the Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD), creating a state of tension in the...

At least 15 Iraqi civilians were killed on Sunday when a warplane struck their house in western Mosul, according to an Iraqi rights activist. "The victims were taking refuge inside the house when the plane struck the building," Mohamed Fadel told Anadolu Agency. He said five other people...