An ambush by the Islamic State jihadist group has killed 21 regime fighters in Syria's southern province of Sweida, a Britain-based war monitor said on Tuesday. The attack occurred late Monday in the rural Tulul al-Safa area of the province, some 100 kilometres (60 miles) southeast of...

Missiles were fired at Libya's capital Tripoli, including the city's only functioning airport, forcing authorities to divert flights to anther airport to the south, government and airport officials said Wednesday, less than a week after the U.N. brokered a cease-fire between rival armed...

Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday that North Korean leader Kim Jong Un could visit Russia at any time that was convenient for him. Putin's comments came days after the Kremlin said it had sent Kim Jong Un a letter of invitation to visit Russia.

The former bodyguard whose violent conduct plunged French President Emmanuel Macron into his biggest political crisis this summer agreed reluctantly to face questioning by senators as their hearings resumed on Wednesday. Alexandre Benalla, 26, is under criminal investigation after being...

Turkey's state-run news agency says Turkish intelligence agents in Syria have captured a man wanted over a deadly 2013 bomb attack and brought him back to Turkey for questioning. Anadolu Agency said Wednesday Yusuf Nazik was captured in Syria's Latikia province. He was wanted for...

The number of cancer cases has continued to rise across Europe, however mortality rates from the disease have fallen, according to the World Health Organization's "European Health Report", published Wednesday. Some 2.4 percent of people living in the 53 countries constituting the WHO's...

US Defense Secretary Jim Mattis announced plans Tuesday to visit Macedonia, ahead of a referendum that could end a years-long spat with Greece over the country's name and pave the way for it to join NATO. The Pentagon chief said he was concerned Russia might be attempting to interfere...

Iran's ambassador to Iraq says his country is relocating its consulate in Basra, after demonstrators burned down the old one four days ago. Protests in the oil-rich city that began over failing services and contaminated drinking water have morphed into a condemnation of Iraq's entire...

U.S. President Donald Trump has cancelled a planned visit to Ireland during a November trip to Europe, Irish media reported on Tuesday. The White House in August announced that Trump would travel to Ireland for the first time as president as part of a trip to attend the Nov. 11...

Syrian regime media says the nation's Exporters' Union on Monday signed agreements with Iraqi, Kuwaiti, and Russian companies to export agricultural products to their markets. Syria's regime is looking for trade and investment partners through its annual Damascus International Fair to...

French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian warned Tuesday that a Syrian government offensive on the last rebel stronghold of Idlib could scatter thousands of foreign militants abroad, posing a security threat to the West. "There are in all likelihood dozens of French fighters from both...

Coalition-backed ground forces in Syria have begun what is expected to be the final phase of an operation to clear the Islamic State group from a pocket of terrain, officials said Tuesday. The ground offensive, dubbed Operation Roundup, is being conducted by the Syrian Democratic Forces...

Campaigning kicked off on Tuesday for a parliamentary election in Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region amid political divisions a year after hopes for independence were dashed. Around 673 candidates from 29 political movements have thrown their hats into the ring hoping to secure one of 111...

The European Union on Tuesday condemned death sentences passed on 75 people in Egypt, saying there were "serious doubts" over whether the defendants had been given a fair trial. An Egyptian court on Saturday confirmed the sentences, initially passed in July over clashes in 2013 between...

A suicide attack on protesters in eastern Afghanistan on Tuesday killed at least 19 people, officials said, as an uptick in violence across the country dampens hopes for peace talks and elections. Another 57 people were wounded in the blast in Nangarhar province, where demonstrators had...

Forty-three people died in southern India on Tuesday when a bus taking pilgrims from a temple plunged into a valley, an official said, in the latest horrific crash on the country's roads. "We have pulled out the bodies and we are taking them to the hospital for autopsy," B. Rajesham, a...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The Grand Mufti of the Syria regime, Sheikh Ahmed Hassoun, has warned the Europeans against the threat of mosques, calling them to besiege and close them, under the pretext of the Syrian experience with mosques, from which all the "problems" has erupted. The recent...

Hundreds of thousands of Russian troops will take part in the country's largest ever military drills Tuesday, in a massive show of force featuring Chinese soldiers that has rattled the West. The week-long deployment dubbed "Vostok-2018" (East-2018), which will kick off in eastern...

More than 30,000 people have so far fled their homes in northwest Syria since the regime and allied forces resumed air and ground bombardments there last week, the United Nations agency coordinating relief efforts said Monday. The U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said an...

  A relative of one of the two Syrian-French torture victims, Mazen Dabbagh, the pedagogical counselor of the French School of Damascus, and his son Patrick Abdelkader, revealed some episodes of the tragedy of those victims with the torturers of the regime.  The tragedy...