Wednesday on who controls the northeastern town of Tal Abyad. On Tuesday, the Turkish military shelled positions of the YPG, the Syrian branch of the PKK terrorist organization, in the town. Cmdr. Sean Robertson, a Pentagon spokesperson, called on all parties to avoid escalation and...

Turkey's military carried out air strikes in northern Iraq Wednesday, killing 23 militants from the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), it said on Twitter. The air strikes targeted several regions in the neighboring northern Iraq, including the Qandil mountains, a PKK stronghold,...

(Under the banner “No legitimacy for perpetrators,” Pro-Justice, a non-profit human rights organization, has launched a campaign to hold Syria's war criminals accountable as the human rights violators. The perpetrators and war criminals that represent the Syrian political and...

A Kurdish-led force backed by a US-led coalition on Wednesday suspended operations against the Islamic State group and said they would not resume until Turkey halts its attacks on Kurdish militia posts in northern Syria. The Syrian Democratic Forces, joint Arab-Kurdish units under...

Pakistan’s top court on Wednesday overturned the death sentence of a Christian woman accused of blasphemy. While Ireland recently voted to oust its ‘medieval’ law, many European countries still have laws criminalising blasphemy. Could the tide finally be turning against blasphemy? On...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Leishmaniasis disease has spread in the displaced camps near Afrin city in northern Syria, medic told Zaman al-Wasl, reporting more than 100 cases.  The ‘intracellular protozoan parasite’ spread in the camps of Deir al-Ballout and al-Mohamadiya in Aleppo...

Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi was strangled as soon as he entered the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul as part of a premeditated killing, and his body was dismembered before being disposed of, a top Turkish prosecutor said Wednesday. A statement from chief Istanbul prosecutor Irfan Fidan's...

 The 26-year-old Yazidi mother faces a heartbreaking choice. Her family is preparing to emigrate from Iraq to Australia and start a new life after the suffering Daesh (ISIS) wreaked on their small religious minority. She is desperate to go with them, but there is also someone she can’t bear...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The National Liberation Front (NLF) and Hayat Tahrir al-Sham jihadist group have reached a new agreement on Wednesday to end the infighting in northern Aleppo province after the clashes broke out for the second time in a week. According to a ceasefire agreement brokered...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- After a round of dirty talk and swearing at Rima, the warden asked her inmates to throw her out of the cell despite the deadly. Being a member in a family loyal to Bashar al-Assad was a heavy burden on Rima who joined the Syrians dream in freedom and dignity....

Iran's foreign ministry summoned the Danish ambassador on Wednesday over the arrest of an Iranian-Norwegian national for allegedly plotting an attack in Denmark. "The Danish ambassador arrived at the foreign ministry this morning," foreign ministry spokesman Bahram Ghasemi said in a...

France has launched a nationwide probe into incidents of babies being born with either missing or malformed arms after abnormal rates of deformations were detected in several regions of the country, a top public health official said Wednesday. Francois Bourdillon, head of the Public...

Austria said Wednesday it will not sign a United Nations migration pact that is set to be adopted in December, in order to "defend its national sovereignty." The United States and Hungary have already rejected the Global Compact for Migration, which aims to boost cooperation to address...

Air France-KLM, hit badly earlier this year by strikes and management upheaval, reported Wednesday its third quarter net profit jumped nearly 23 percent year-on-year to 786 million euros ($900 million). Ben Smith, who took over the reins in September, said the airline could look forward...

China'a number one Wang Qiang has been left "really tired" at the end of a punishing season on the WTA tour and believes she has played "too many matches". The world number 22 has been on a spectacular run of form recently that has seen her leapfrog Zhang Shuai to become China's top...

European aerospace giant Airbus reported Wednesday a third quarter net profit of 957 million euros ($1.1 billion), more than triple the 2017 performance. The company, which rivals Boeing of the US, said it was maintaining its forecast for deliveries of 800 commercial aircraft this year...

A suicide bomber targeting a bus carrying employees of Afghanistan's biggest prison killed at least seven people on Wednesday, officials said, in the latest militant attack in the war-torn country. Another five were wounded in the blast near the facility in Kabul, which police spokesman...

Israelis voted in local elections Tuesday that saw an ally of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vie for the position of Jerusalem mayor and controversial first-time polls in part of the occupied Golan Heights draw protests. Turnout was reported at 42 percent nationwide and 18 percent in...

Daesh (ISIS) has claimed responsibility for a bomb attack on Shiiite Muslim pilgrims in Iraq Tuesday, its news agency Amaq reported. The roadside bomb killed three pilgrims as they walked to a holy site near the northeastern Iraqi city of Khanaqin.

The FBI is investigating an alleged scheme to pay women to accuse Russia collusion probe chief Robert Mueller of sexual harassment in a bid to discredit him, Mueller's office said Tuesday. The scheme was uncovered after one woman who said she worked for Mueller decades ago told several...