A Kurdish-led force arrested 63 suspected militants in the Syrian city of Raqqa Thursday during an operation against jihadist sleeper cells, it said in a statement. The US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces said those detained belonged to "terrorist cells directly responsible for spreading...

British opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn met Prime Minister Theresa May last week and has written her a letter putting forward five demands by his Labour Party on the Brexit deal, his party said late on Wednesday. In the letter made public on Wednesday, Corbyn said the Brexit deal must...

UEFA president Aleksander Ceferin was on Thursday re-elected for a four-year term as head of European football's governing body by acclamation. The 51-year-old Slovenian lawyer was the only candidate going forward for election at the UEFA Congress in Rome. Ceferin took over two and a...

The Israeli army has released a Lebanese national arrested earlier this week for illegally crossing the border between the two countries. “The army arrested the suspect on Tuesday for infiltrating Israel from Lebanon," Israeli army spokesman Avichai Adraee said in a statement. According...

At least 18 members of the Daesh terrorist group were killed in two separate army operations in Iraq’s northern Kirkuk and Saladin provinces, according to official sources. In a Thursday statement, Iraqi police spokesman Yehia Rasool said that army forces, with support from U.S.-led...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Hamad al-Nada toured all the bakeries of the southern and northern Al-Hasakah city in search of a bundle of bread but in vain, due to the fact that 30 private bakeries in Hasaka city stopped working, for the second day in a row because they were not supplied with flour by the...

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) on Wednesday said it would not severe its ties with Saudi Arabia but the school condemned the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi. "MIT utterly condemns such brutal human rights violations, discrimination and suppression of dissent, including...

Anadolu Agency questioned Luis Pacheco, a nonresident fellow of the Rice University's Baker Institute, on Venezuela's energy sector, its economy and politics. Pacheco has more than 35 years of experience in the energy industry, including 17 years at Venezuela’s national oil company PDVSA...

Asian markets mostly rose Thursday as regional investors began to return from their Lunar New Year break, though Tokyo edged lower after a negative lead from Wall Street. Most trading floors have reopened but business remains light, with Hong Kong and Shanghai still closed, while focus...

A Syrian nonprofit organization on Wednesday urged the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) to make strides to investigate 191 chemical attacks by the regime of Bashar al-Assad. The Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR) said in a report at least 221 chemical attacks...

More than a decade ago, university students in Venezuela burst onto the political scene by rekindling opposition to then leader Hugo Chavez with street protests that led to the socialist firebrand's only election defeat. Now, one of the more low-profile leaders of that drive, Juan Guaido,...

Venezuela's opposition leader Juan Guaido warned the army of its responsibilities on Wednesday after soldiers blocked a key border bridge, sparking angry demands from the US to allow desperately needed humanitarian aid to enter the country. Venezuela's army had to choose between "a...

US President Donald Trump predicted Wednesday that the Islamic State group will have lost by next week all the territory it once controlled in Iraq and Syria. The president told representatives of a 79-member, US-led coalition fighting IS that the militants held a tiny percentage of the...

Australian flag carrier Qantas on Thursday confirmed it would not take up eight Airbus A380s already ordered -- the latest blow for the European airspace firm. In a statement, Sydney-based Qantas said it would focus instead on refurbishing its existing 12 Airbus super-jumbo planes....

More than 40,000 displaced people in southeast Syria will receive "life-saving humanitarian assistance" this week, as the United Nations and the Syrian Arab Red Crescent (SARC) sent a humanitarian convoy to Rukban refugee camp. The convoy arrived at the remote, makeshift camp near...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- A group of Syrian rebels formed Saraya al-Janoub faction in southern Daraa province, such a development follows reconciliation deals and post-war talks. Saraya al-Janoub seeks guerrilla war tactics after the heavy army deployment in southern Syria. In...

arcelona and Real Madrid drew 1-1 in the first leg of their Copa del Rey semi-final at the Camp Nou, with Lucas Vazquez and Malcom both getting on the scoresheet in a game of two halves.Lucas gave Madrid the lead after just six minutes.  Vinicius Junior came in from the left wing...

Images of child sexual abuse have been found embedded in the system powering a high-profile crypto-currency. Somebody added the illegal images to the core ledger of Bitcoin Satoshi Vision (BSV) by using a payment processor. This ledger, known as the blockchain, is a running record of...

Microsoft launched a new ad campaign for its Office suite today. Usually, that’s not something especially interesting, but this one is a bit different. Instead of simply highlighting the features of Word and Excel, Microsoft decided to pitch Office 365 and Office 2019 against each other (as an...

One of the most important upcoming events in the space industry is undoubtedly the advent of SpaceX and Boeing’s competing crew-bearing capsules, which the companies have been working on for years. But today brings yet another delay for both programs, already years behind schedule. Boeing’s...