(Zaman Al Wasl)- Kurdish-led Syria Democratic Forces have encircled around 45  ISIS-held villages northwest of the group's self-proclaimed capital of Raqqa city, local activists said Wednesday. Backed by the the U.S.-led airstrikes, the SDF alliance took villages of Karmanji and...

Britain's divorce terms with the European Union must be fair, but not as good as those for full EU members, the Prime Minister of Malta, which holds the rotating EU presidency, told a news conference on Wednesday. "We want a fair deal for the United Kingdom, but that fair deal needs to be...

Turkish warplanes destroyed 14 PKK terrorist targets in northern Iraq Tuesday night, a military source said Wednesday. The airstrikes took place in the country’s Zap, Gara, Hakurk and Avasin-Basyan regions between 6 p.m. (1500GMT) and 8.34 p.m. (1734GMT) and destroyed 14 targets of the...

A Syrian provincial governor said on Wednesday the government and rebels had agreed on a plan to repair damage to a spring in the Wadi Barada area that supplies water to the capital, state television reported. The report could not be immediately confirmed with rebel fighters. The local media...