Daesh (ISIS) killed 15 U.S.-backed fighters in a surprise attack Sunday from the militants' holdout in eastern Syria on the Iraqi border, activists and monitoring group said. Twelve fighters of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) were killed and 20 wounded in a suicide car bombing and...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Amid Barazil's attempt to move its embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, a Syrian parliamentary committee has met with Brazilian delegation without expressing any concern. The Arab, Foreign and Expatriates Affairs Committee and the Syrian-Brazilian Friendship Committee...

Nineteen suspected militants linked to a deadly attack on Coptic Christians in central Egypt have been killed in a shootout with police, the interior ministry said Sunday. Those killed in the exchange of fire were part of a cell that left dead seven Coptic pilgrims in Friday's attack in...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Lebanese Caretaker Minister for Refugee Affairs said Saturday that about 20 Syrian refugees who had returned from Lebanon to Syria had since been killed by regime forces, The Daily Star reported. “The lives of Syrian refugees returning from Lebanon to areas controlled...

Israeli forces on Sunday raided the Jerusalem governor’s office in the occupied West Bank, according to local residents.  “An Israeli force stormed the governor’s office in the town of al-Ram, northeast of Jerusalem, and searched it,” a local resident told Anadolu Agency. ...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The Russian army held in a special exhibition for weapons and heavy engineering machines claimed it had been handed over by rebels to regime over the reconciliation deals. The exhibition that took place n Russia showed heavy engineering machines used to dig tunnels by...

Rainstorms lashing Sicily have killed at least 10 people, Italian Premier Giuseppe Conte said before heading Sunday for the stricken Mediterranean island. State radio said nine of those victims were in a home that was flooded by a rapidly swelling river in the countryside near Palermo....

Bahrain's appeals court sentenced the head of the country's Shiite opposition movement to jail for life Sunday over charges of spying for rival Gulf state Qatar, a judicial source said. Sheikh Ali Salman, who headed the now-outlawed Al-Wefaq movement, had been acquitted by the high...

Thousands of Iranians rallied in Tehran Sunday to mark the 39th anniversary of the U.S. Embassy takeover, as Washington restored all sanctions lifted under the nuclear deal. The crowd chanted "Down with U.S." and "Death to Israel" during the rally in the capital, and state TV said...

More than 100 writers, actors and activists have signed an open letter urging the UN to launch an independent investigation Meryl Streep, JK Rowling and Zadie Smith have all added their names to an open letter calling on the United Nations to investigate the death of the journalist...

Controversial Uzbek businessman Gafur Rakhimov was elected president of the International Boxing Association (AIBA) on Saturday despite fears that his appointment could lead to the sport's ejection from the Olympic Games. Rakhimov won 86 of the 134 second-round votes in the ballot in...

The Turkish foreign ministry Saturday recalled its ambassador to Uganda after she was photographed at a reception for Turkey's annual Republic Day wearing a dress reportedly inspired by ancient Greece. Ambassador Sedef Yavuzalp hosted the reception in Kampala for the annual October 29...

A Russian-made MiG-29 fighter jet of the Egyptian Air Forces crashed in Egypt during a training flight on Saturday, according to Russia’s state-controlled aircraft company. The Russian United Aircraft Corporation (UAC) said in a statement that a technical glitch and piloting error are among the...

An aid convoy on Saturday reached a camp for displaced Syrians near the Jordanian border, the United Nations and the Syrian Arab Red Crescent said, in the first such delivery since January. "The UN and SARC are delivering humanitarian assistance to 50,000 people in need at Rukban camp...

Indonesian lawmakers have criticized Saudi Arabia for executing a migrant worker without notifying the Indonesian authorities beforehand and said the Kingdom “violated” diplomatic ethics and international custom law such as the 1963 Vienna Convention. "It is the custom of the...

A Jordanian official on Saturday called on his government to reverse a decision to cancel a free trade agreement with Turkey. “The commercial sector hopes that the government would restudy the agreement carefully to serve the best of all parties,” Nael al-Kabariti, the head of the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, has begun replacing 500 tents and distributing food items to Syrian refugees in northeastern Syria The move followed a week of fresh floods and severe storms. The urgent tent supply was for the camp of Abo Khashab. Sajjad...

A member of the U.S. armed forces was killed and another wounded in an apparent insider attack in the Afghan capital Kabul, an official said on Saturday. Debra Richardson, spokeswoman for the NATO-led Resolute Support Mission, said in a statement the attacker was a member of the Afghan...

Syrians who fled YPG/PKK’s terrorist activities in Tal Abyad district of Raqqah in Syria and took refuge in Turkey want to return to their homeland. Inhabitants in Tal Abyad, whose houses were forcibly evacuated, had to take refuge in Turkey’s southeastern province of Sanliurfa’s Akcakale...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- A powerful winter storms have swept the Syrian refugees camps across the Turkish and the Iraqi border, worsening conditions for those who have fled the eight-year-old war.  The torrential rain and strong winds have lashed most displaced areas in eastern provinces...