Spain looks for ways to end the Catalan conflict, as pro-independence protests paralyze life in Barcelona, a government spokeswoman said on Friday. Isabel Celaa, spokeswoman for the Spanish government, said Spain wants to open dialogues with Catalonia to end the conflict....
Kurdish-led forces in northern Syria may not be able to continue hold Daesh (ISIS) prisoners if the situation in the region gets out of control, top Syrian Kurdish official Ilham Ahmed said Friday. Speaking alongside her at a Paris news conference, Riad Darar, co-chair of the Syrian...
The Israeli army says it has opened fire on a car that broke through a West Bank checkpoint, killing one of the Palestinian passengers. The Palestinian Health Ministry identified the man as Qasim Abbasi, 17. His cousin, Mohammed Abbasi, told The Associated Press that he and Qasim were...
French presidency officials met representatives of the Kurdish-dominated Syrian Democratic Forces in Paris Friday and assured them of French support, an Elysee palace official said. Officials from the U.S.-backed SDF met with advisers to French President Emmanuel Macron following...
The Arab tribes in northeastern Syria began to take some measures following the U.S. decision to withdraw from Syria, according to local sources. After the U.S. President Donald Trump announced the withdrawal, the leaders of the Syrian Arab tribes started to take some measures. Syrian...
Turkey's National Education Ministry and the EU delegation signed on Thursday a €400-million protocol on the education of Syrians in the country. The protocol is part of the Project of Supporting Integration of Syrian Children to Turkish Education System (PICTES 2). Speaking at...
A U.S. Air Force veteran has raised nearly $7 million so far to help pay for the construction of President Donald Trump's wall along the U.S.-Mexico border. Brian Kolfage, a triple amputee and Purple Heart recipient, launched a campaign on the online crowdfunding platform GoFundMe...
U.S. President Donald Trump is planning a "substantial" drawdown of American forces from Afghanistan, The Wall Street Journal said Thursday. The Journal reported that over 7,000 American troops will be withdrawn from Afghanistan, around half of the size of the U.S. presence in the...
A Palestinian man was martyred Thursday in the occupied West Bank, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry. The man was shot dead by Israeli soldiers at the northern entrance to the city of Al-Bireh. The reason for the attack is unknown, while the identity of the...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and American President Donald Trump spoke over the phone and discussed the U.S. forces’ withdrawal from Syria, a statement said on Thursday. According to the statement issued by Israeli Prime Minister's Office, Trump and Netanyahu also exchanged...
A former diplomat has criticized the new working definition of Islamophobia outlined by a parliamentary group on British Muslims last month. In a report by think tank Policy Exchange, titled ‘Defining Islamophobia’, Sir John Jenkins is critical of the definition and questioned the...
An uneasy calm returned to the battleground Yemeni city of Hodeida on Thursday after further overnight skirmishes, as the warring parties await the promised deployment of UN staff to oversee a hard-won but fragile truce. The ceasefire in the Red Sea port city, which is a vital aid...
Defense Secretary James Mattis resigned Thursday on the heels of President Donald Trump's plans to withdraw troops from Syria, citing irreconcilable policy differences in a move that took Washington by surprise. "Because you have the right to have a Secretary of Defense whose views are...
Saudi Arabia announced Thursday the creation of three new government bodies aimed at improving the country’s intelligence operations in the wake of the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, which has sparked international outrage. King Salman ordered a restructuring of the intelligence...
Syrian Kurdish forces said Thursday they will keep fighting Daesh (ISIS) in eastern Syria unless they come under Turkish attack, after their U.S. allies announced their withdrawal. The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) stressed they would freeze operations if Turkey attacked, as widely...
U.S. President Donald Trump's order to withdraw U.S. troops from Syria also signifies an end to the U.S. air campaign against Daesh (ISIS), U.S. officials told Reuters Thursday, speaking on condition of anonymity. Trump's surprise decision Wednesday to completely withdraw U.S. troops...
Israeli settlers on Thursday vandalized Palestinian vehicles in a suspected “price tag” attack in occupied East Jerusalem, according to a local eyewitness. “Settlers slashed tires and spray-painted racist slogans on dozens of cars in Jerusalem’s southern Beit Hanina neighborhood,”...
The Israeli State Prosecutor's Office has recommended the indictment of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for alleged bribery in two separate corruption cases, Israeli daily Haaretz reported Wednesday. Netanyahu will also likely be charged for breach of trust in a third corruption...
The phrase "Occupied Ghouta" sounds contradictory to the truth, for some people, for others it sounds exaggerating the description of the situation in the eastern district of Damascus, which was brought back to the regime’s control last April. But the insiders and the...
Britain has insisted “much remains to be done” in fighting the ISIS group in Syria, amid reports Thursday it was not given prior warning of President Donald Trump's decision to pull out US ground troops. “The global coalition against ISIS has made huge progress,” said a government...
