The British founder of an organisation that trained the “White Helmets” emergency response group has been found dead in Istanbul, five years after the group was set up to perform rescue work in rebel areas during the Syrian civil war. The body of James Le Mesurier, founder of the Mayday...

A Turkish aid agency is continuing to coordinate the distribution of food, water, personal care items, blankets, and toys to civilians in northern Syria liberated by Turkey's anti-terror operation launched last month.  Turkey’s Disaster and Emergency Management Authority (AFAD) said on...

The United Nations' nuclear watchdog said it had detected uranium particles at an undeclared site in Iran in its latest report on the country's nuclear program issued Monday. The report from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), seen by AFP, says: "The agency detected natural...

Three simultaneous bombings killed at least six civilians in the Kurdish-majority city of Qamishli in northeastern Syria on Monday, a Kurdish security source and a Britain-based monitor said. There was no immediate claim for the bombings, but they occurred shortly after the Islamic State...

Clashes erupted between Palestinians and Israeli forces Monday during demonstrations marking the 15th anniversary of the death of Yasser Arafat in the occupied West Bank, leaving a Palestinian shot dead, medics and Palestinian officials said. Demonstrations were held in Ramallah and the...

A Lebanese flag flutters in the protest-hit Iraqi capital. More than 900 kilometres (500 miles) away, a revolutionary Iraqi chant rings out from a bustling protest square in Beirut. "Don't trust the rumours, they're a group of thieves," sings a group of Lebanese musicians in Iraqi dialect,...

Egyptian authorities Monday opened up Tora prison in Cairo for a media tour, following a UN report on the "brutal" conditions in which jailed ex-president Mohamed Morsi was held before his death. In a rare tour of the sprawling jail complex, journalists were shown an exhibition of furniture...

Walid Abu Rashed walks past bombed-out buildings in war-torn northwest Syria, carrying a large wooden board and a plastic bag filled with puppets while dozens of children trail behind him. The 26 year-old's mobile puppet theatre has become a small respite from war for the children of...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian rebels killed three regime troops and wounded five others in Mont Turkmen (Jabal al-Turkman), the last opposition stronghold in coastal Latakia province, sources said Monday. The Turkish-backed rebels hit a regime army barrack with Kornet missile (a Russian...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian rebels killed three regime troops and wounded five others in Mont Turkmen (Jabal al-Turkman), the last opposition stronghold in coastal Latakia province, sources said Monday. The Turkish-backed rebels hit a regime army barrack with Kornet missile (a Russian...

Chile has announced it will move to draft a new constitution and replace one dating back to the Augusto Pinochet dictatorship -- a key demand of protesters who have rocked the country for three weeks. The new constitution will be drafted by a body called a constituent assembly and then put...

The Louvre Abu Dhabi on Monday celebrated two years since it opened its doors, but the fate of what was to be a prize exhibit remains unknown. The world's most expensive painting, Leonardo da Vinci's Salvator Mundi was meant to go on display at the museum in September 2018. But in a...

Lebanon's central bank on Monday said it would strive to maintain the local currency's peg to the US dollar and ease access to the greenback after weeks of mass protests. For two decades, the Lebanese pound has been pegged to the greenback at around 1,500 pounds to the dollar, with both...

The United Nations' top official in Iraq and the country's most senior cleric urged authorities on Monday to get "serious" about reforms after anti-government demonstrations that have left hundreds dead. Mass rallies calling for an overhaul of the ruling system have rocked the capital...

At least 198 soldiers of Turkey-backed Syrian National Army (SNA) have been killed during attacks by the PKK's Syrian affiliate, the People's Protection Units (YPG), terrorists since the launch of the Ankara-led anti-terror operation in northern Syria last month. According to the SNA...

Izmir's delicious stuffed mussels, a popular Turkish street food, have become a vital source of income for Turkish, and Syrian refugee women. Some 20 women from different backgrounds, who were in search of self-employment, came together to set up a stuffed mussels production facility in...

Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi backpedaled Sunday after calling the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi a "mistake" by the Saudi government, according to the Axios news website.  Khosrowshahi made the remarks to Axios in an interview on U.S. cable channel HBO, saying: "I think that...

Bashar al-Assad said the Syrian presidential election in 2021 would be open to anybody who wants to run and that there would be numerous challengers for the presidency. Assad, who made the comment in an interview broadcast Monday on Russian state-funded television channel RT, faced two...

Turkey has started the repatriation of captured Daesh militants, state broadcaster TRT Haber said Monday, after the Turkish interior minister warned last week that Ankara would do so even if the prisoners had their citizenships revoked. It was not immediately clear how many jihadists would...

The United States has called on Iraq's government to stop using violence against protesters, reform its electoral system and hold early elections, the White House press secretary said in a statement. "The United States joins the UN Assistance Mission to Iraq in calling on the Iraqi...