Two children were killed in Russian airstrikes on residential areas in the de-escalation zone of Idlib, Syria, the Syrian civil defense group White Helmets said on Thursday.  Two minor siblings were killed in the Maarat Hurma village, the agency said. According to the...

At least 530 houses in the Gaza Strip were damaged by the recent Israeli aggression on the coastal enclave, Palestine's Public Works Ministry said on Thursday.  "In Israeli airstrikes against Gaza, 30 houses were completely destroyed and 500 houses were partially damaged," the ministry...

Syrian regime forces started deploying Thursday in areas close to the Turkish border in the country’s northeast as part of an agreement reached between Russia and Turkey, state media reported. News agency SANA said troops were deploying between the towns of Jawadiyeh and Malkiyeh, also...

Thousands of opposition supporters demonstrated on the streets of Georgia Thursday after the ruling party failed to push through promised electoral reforms. Protesters began gathering outside the parliament in central Tbilisi minutes after lawmakers voted down the legislation and blocked...

China's President Xi Jinping late Thursday warned deepening protests in Hong Kong threaten the "one country, two systems" principle governing the semi-autonomous city, in comments following the fourth day of a strike called by pro-democracy activists which has choked the financial hub. Hong...

 Algeria's parliament Thursday adopted a controversial law aimed at boosting investment in the oil and gas sector, state media said, as activists warned that multinational companies would plunder the country's wealth. The National Popular Assembly vote came a month after the draft...

Eastern Libyan authorities forced a civilian flight to land for security checks soon after it had taken off from a city controlled by their rivals in the Tripoli government Thursday, authorities said. The 90-minute stoppage of the Libyan Airlines flight underlined the warring sides'...

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo promised allies Thursday that the United States would keep up the fight against the Islamic State but demanded action from them in turn, including the repatriation of thousands of jihadists from Syria. Senior officials from more than 30 countries discussed the...

 Tucked in a displacement camp alongside rows of olive trees, a partially destroyed bus with blown-out tires and shattered windows has provided Dunia and her four children barely enough shelter to survive the past two months. In September, Save the Children interviewed and filmed...

Russia has begun setting up a helicopter base at a civilian airport in the north-eastern Syrian city of Qamishli, the Russian Defense Ministry’s Zvezda TV channel said on Thursday, showing footage of helicopter gunships arriving there. The new base is protected by Pantsir surface-to-air...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Three Turkish-backed fighters were killed Thursday when unknown assailants opened fire on their vehicle near the border town of Afrin north of Aleppo city, local activists told Zaman al-Wasl. Two more fighters from the Syrian National Army were killed on Wednesday in a...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- For a long time, the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) have been accused of working with the regime for the discharge of oil fields products under its control, but the regime has denied this over the past years. Activists leaked several videos and pictures of tankers...

A Taliban spokesman said Thursday the insurgents were still holding two Western hostages, as officials stayed tight-lipped over the outcome of an apparent prisoner swap announced by Afghan President Ashraf Ghani earlier this week. Ghani announced on Tuesday that his government would...

With wooden catapults to launch petrol bombs and bows and arrows pilfered from sports departments, Hong Kong's democracy protesters are combining new tactics with medieval tech as they battle police. Roads in the financial hub have been blockaded with bamboo lattices this week, while mini...

 Israel will follow suit if Palestinian fighters in the Gaza Strip stop cross-border attacks, an Israeli official said on Thursday, denying that Israel had changed open-fire policy as demanded by the Islamic Jihad militant group for a truce. “Quiet will be answered with quiet,” Foreign...

Turkish police are treating as suicide the death of an ex-British Army officer who helped start Syria's White Helmets, but his wife has been banned from leaving the country, local media said Thursday. Police are analysing James Le Mesurier's hospital records where he sought help for mental...

Kuwait's prime minister submitted his resignation Thursday along with his cabinet, officials said, amid infighting between ministers and criticism of their performance. Prime Minister Sheikh Jaber Mubarak Al-Sabah "submitted the resignation of the cabinet to the emir... in order to allow...

Security forces killed two protesters and wounded 35 others in Baghdad on Thursday, police and medical sources said, as thousands of Iraqis continued a wave of anti-government protests. One protester died immediately after a tear gas canister hit his head and another died in hospital from...

Palestinian militant group Islamic Jihad said it was holding fire from the Gaza Strip on Thursday after Israel agreed to an Egyptian-mediated truce, calming the worst surge in fighting in months. The truce was declared from 0330 GMT, the group’s spokesman, Musab Al-Braim, said, marking...

The United States will maintain around 600 troops in Syria, Pentagon chief Mark Esper said Wednesday, despite Donald Trump's desire to end US involvement in what the president calls "endless wars". "We're still moving troops out of northeastern Syria," the US defense secretary said onboard...