Air strikes have killed more than two dozen civilians including 11 children in rebel-held northwestern Syria in the last two days in an escalation of a Russian-backed offensive, a war monitor and local activists said on Saturday. An air strike in the village of Deir killed seven people,...

Germany's Bayern Munich on Friday signed Brazilian international Philippe Coutinho on a season-long loan from La Liga giants Barcelona. Bayern Munich also have an option to buy Coutinho from Barca. "In my opinion, not only FC Bayern Munich, but also the entire Bundesliga and the whole...

   Six civilians were killed in a regime airstrike in the de-escalation zone in northwestern Syria on Saturday, according to the White Helmets civil defense agency. “Three of the victims were of the same family in the attack that targeted the town of Aldier Alsharki," Mustafa...

Yemen's Houthi movement launched drone attacks on Aramco oil facilities in a remote area of Saudi Arabia, the group's Al-Masirah TV said Saturday. The Houthis have stepped up cross-border missile and drone attacks on Saudi Arabia in recent months. "Ten drones targeted Aramco's Shaybah...

The U.S. government has issued a warrant to seize the supertanker Grace 1, which was detained last month on suspicion of hauling Iranian oil to Syria in violation of European sanctions. A complaint unsealed in Washington states that “‘Oil Tanker Grace 1,’ all petroleum aboard it and...

Coalition warplanes fired flares over Yemen's Aden at dawn Saturday, residents said, near camps occupied by southern separatist fighters who last week seized control of the port city, which had been the interim seat of the government. The coalition, led by Saudi Arabia, overnight Saturday...

The White House signaled progress Friday in preparations for a peace deal with the Taliban in Afghanistan, saying that discussions between President Donald Trump and top advisors went "very well." Trump met at his Bedminster, New Jersey golf course with national security advisors including...

President Donald Trump's reported wish to buy Greenland may have been rejected by Denmark, but it underscores the rapidly rising value of the massive, ice-covered island due to global warming and to China's drive for an Arctic presence. The accelerating polar ice melt has left sparsely...

Moscow was set for fresh protests Saturday, the latest in a wave of demonstrations that has seen tens of thousands take to the streets after opposition figures were banned from local elections a month ago. The rallies, which have taken place every Saturday since the ruling, are the biggest...

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un once again supervised a "new weapon" launch, state media said Saturday, complicating efforts at denuclearisation ahead of next week's visit to Seoul by the US envoy to Pyongyang. Friday's launch was the North's sixth test in recent weeks as it protests the...

Threatening to bring forward parliamentary elections is the latest card played by Venezuela's regime to put pressure on the US-backed opposition at the negotiating table, analysts say. The National Assembly is the only branch of government under opposition control, and elections are not...

Donald Trump said Friday that tech giant Apple would be spending "vast sums" of money in the US in a tweet ahead of a dinner meeting with its CEO Tim Cook. The men have had several informal meetings before, including at Bedminster, New Jersey, where Trump is reportedly on a working holiday...

Hundreds of pro-China demonstrators marched through Sydney Saturday in response to a growing number of rallies in support of the Hong Kong democracy protests as tensions between the two groups increasingly flare in Australia. They marched through the city chanting "One China", waving the...

Israeli warplanes struck at least three targets in the Gaza Strip early on Saturday but caused no apparent casualties, a Palestinian security source said. The strikes, which came after Palestinians fired a rocket from the territory at southern Israel late Friday, hit a Hamas observation...

Seventeen out of around 100 telephone exchanges were restored Saturday in the restive Kashmir Valley, the local police chief told AFP, after an almost two-week communications blackout. New Delhi cut landlines, mobile phones and the internet in early August as it stripped the Muslim-majority...

Sudan's military rulers and protest leaders on Saturday are scheduled to sign a landmark deal reached after a bloody uprising which is meant to pave the way for civilian rule. The ceremony will officialise a constitutional declaration inked on August 4 between the country's Transitional...

(EQTSAD)- Stories of successful Syrians in Europe in the scientific and academic fields are not matched by any news about the economic projects carried out by them as they did in all the countries they migrated to. So, what is the reason? Are the restrictions imposed by European...

Palestinian group Hamas on Friday called its operations and resistance a response to Israeli violations. "Continuance of systematic crimes in Jerusalem and the West Bank will explode the situation in the region in the face of the occupation and the settlers,” Hamas spokesman Abd al-Latif...

The other day I saw a report of an airstrike hitting a medical facility in Idlib, killing a paramedic and an ambulance driver. Not a legitimate military target, but a medical facility. Then, shortly after, an airstrike hit again. Charles Lister from the Middle East Institute described it as a...

Three people were wounded in raids by forces loyal to strongman Khalifa Haftar against two airports controlled by the unity government in northern Libya, the UN-recognised government said Friday. Tripoli's sole functioning airport Mitiga and Zuwara airfield were targeted for the second...