Egyptian security forces have killed 13 suspected militants in a shootout in Al-Arish, the capital of North Sinai province, state news agency MENA said on Tuesday. The government in February launched an operation against Daesh (ISIS) militants who have waged years of attacks on security...

World Cup stars Kylian Mbappe and Luka Modric will challenge the decade-long dominance of FIFA's best player award by Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi. Mbappe, the teenage star of France's World Cup-winning team, and Modric, the Croatia captain who was named the tournament's best...

 Syrian state media says regime forces have reached the frontier with the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights after capturing territory from rebels and Islamic State militants. Al-Ikhbariya TV on Tuesday broadcast footage from the fence demarcating the U.N. buffer zone between Syrian...

 The Israeli military says the Syrian plane it shot down departed from the Syrian T4 air base, which Israel is believed to have attacked earlier this year, AP reported. Military spokesman Lt. Col. Jonathan Conricus says Tuesday that the plane flew toward Israel at "relatively...

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan pledged Tuesday to continue security operations along all of Turkey's borders until security threats are completely removed, adding no one had the right to criticize a new anti-terrorism law the government is drafting. Emergency rule, put in place...

Twin wildfires raging through popular seaside areas near the Greek capital have torched homes, cars and forests and killed at least 49 people, authorities said Tuesday, raising the death toll after rescue crews reported finding the bodies of more than 20 people huddled together near a beach....

A doctor awarded an Australian bravery medal for his pivotal work in the Thai cave rescue said he was most frightened by not knowing how much sedation to give to the weakened children. Nine Australians involved in rescuing 12 boys and their 25 -year-old soccer coach were presented with...

Iran has expanded its cyber-attack capabilities and poses a danger to German companies and research institutions, Germany's BfV domestic intelligence agency said in its annual report. The report, released on Tuesday by German Interior Minister Horst Seehofer and the BfV agency, cited...

Iraq's human rights commission reported on Monday that 14 people were killed and more than 700 injured by Iraqi security forces during weeks of protests of the country’s economic woes and government mismanagement. Fazl Garrawi, member of the Iraqi Human Right commission affiliated to...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The second convoy of evacuees from Quneitra province arrived in northern Idlib province on Monday over a surrender deal with Russia in southwestern Syria, local activists said. The convoy of 47 buses carried around 2592 evacuees, including 800 children and 700 women....

Nearly 1.5 million Syrian refugees in Turkey will benefit from debit cards till the end of 2020, Turkish Red Crescent head said Monday. The cards are issued by the Turkish Red Crescent, as part of the UN-backed Emergency Social Safety Net (ESSN) program. The European Commission...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- A third installment of refugees who had signed up to return to Syria started their journey home from the Lebanese border town of Arsal Monday morning, the Lebanese Daily Star reported. About 700 Syrian refugees who have been living near the border town of Arsal back to...

An attack at the entrance of a military base in southern Somalia on Monday killed four soldiers. A car bomb by the militant group Al-Shabaab was followed by an armed attack on a military base affiliated to government forces in the village of Baar Sanguni -- some 50 kilometers (31 miles) from...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 5 civilians killed and dozen more wounded in a car bomb attack in the opposition-held areas in northern Aleppo province, activists said Monday. The blast detonated near the Post office in the town of Bab Laimoun in the eastern countryside of Aleppo....

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Prominent Syrian actress Mai Skaf has passed away due to a heart attack in Paris, fellow artist Faris al-Hilou said on official Facebook page Monday. Skaf, 49, was known for her pro-revolution stance since the early days of peaceful protests in March 2011....

Turkish police said Monday they had detained 43 people on suspicion of being foreign members of Daesh (ISIS) in a series of operations across Istanbul. Istanbul counter-terrorism police units captured the suspected militants on Friday in simultaneous raids on 15 homes, a police...

A Tunisian boat carrying around 40 African migrants has been stranded off the country's coast without aid for more than a week after authorities refused to let them disembark there, the Red Crescent said on Monday. Monji Slim, an official of the Tunisian Red Crescent, said the...

The Syrian regime Monday condemned the evacuation of hundreds of Syrian White Helmet rescue workers, calling it a "criminal operation" undertaken by "Israel and its tools". The rescue workers and their families crossed out of Syria into the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights before arriving...

Israeli soldiers killed a Palestinian teenager during a raid in the occupied West Bank Monday, the Palestinian health ministry said. The Israeli military said its forces responded with live fire in Dheishe refugee camp, near Bethlehem, after Palestinians attacked them with rocks,...

Iran's state TV says a magnitude 5.8 earthquake has injured at least 79 people in the country's south. The United States Geological Survey put the quake's magnitude at 5.9. There were no immediate reports of fatalities. The earthquake struck in the early morning on Monday near the...