Daesh (ISIS) says one of the leaders of its affiliate in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula has been killed. The militant group's Aamaq news agency issued an announcement late Sunday about the death of Abu Jaafar al-Maqdesi, calling him a martyr. A photo of a young bearded man accompanied...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian rebels have reopened the main road connects between northern Idlib city and the border crossing of Bab al-Hawa with Turkey after five-year-long closure caused by the siege of Shiite militants near the border.  The road is one of the most strategic...

Crossing into Syria from neighboring Lebanon, visitors are greeted by giant posters of President Bashar Assad. The signs proclaim: “Welcome to victorious Syria.” In the capital of Damascus, many of the checkpoints that for years have snarled traffic are gone. The city is again...

Yemen’s government said the Iran-aligned Houthi rebels should release all detainees and captives held in their prisons ahead of peace talks. The Yemeni news agency SABA quoted the government Sunday as saying that the Houthis should also hand over their arms and withdraw from all rebel-held areas...

Saesh (Islamic State) said on Sunday a suicide bomber targeted the Afghan vice president near Kabul airport, the group's Amaq news agency. It said the bomber detonated his suicide jacket at a celebration held to receive the vice president, Abdul Rashid Dostum, but gave no further...

Syrian regime television said on Sunday an Israeli air strike had hit a military post in the city of Misyaf in Syria's Hama province but caused only material damage. The newsflash did not elaborate on what exactly had been targeted. An intelligence source said a major military research...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Dozen of the US-backed forces were killed and wounded by unknown assailants in eastern Deir Ezzor province, local activists said Sunday. The attack targeted the Kurdihs Women's Protection Units (YPJ) in the town of al-Jerzi, four day after an ambush left two fighters from...

Ten suspected Al-Qaeda fighters and two soldiers fighting for Yemen's government have been killed in clashes and a drone strike, local officials and security sources said Sunday. The U.S. military is the only force known to operate armed drones over Yemen. Officials in Marab...

At least 146 people were injured Sunday when a 5.9-magnitude earthquake struck Iran’s western Kermanshah province, Iran’s ISNA news agency reported.  According to Iranian state television, at least 41 of 146 injured in the earthquake continue to be treated in various hospitals in...

Syrian regime forces have denied exit to members of the White Helmets civil defense agency and their families to opposition-held Idlib province amid an evacuation deal from Quneitra province, according to the group’s chief.   Riyad Salih said on Sunday that the evacuation of the...

British police said Sunday they have arrested a man after a three-year-old boy was seriously injured in a "deliberate" suspected acid attack in central England on Saturday. The boy is being treated for "serious burns to his arm and face" in hospital following the mid-afternoon incident...

Eighteen people have been killed in an attack by suspected Boko Haram militants in the Lake Chad region, a Chadian military source said Sunday. "Boko Haram elements attacked a village south of Daboua," not far from Chad's border with Niger, at around 9:00 pm Thursday, the military...

Fresh protests hit southern Iraq Sunday as medical sources put at 11 the number of demonstrators killed in two weeks of unrest sparked by ire over corruption and lack of public services. Security forces remained deployed around the capital Baghdad after struggling Friday to disperse...

Malta's Prime Minister Joseph Muscat Sunday said his country will take in 19 migrants rescued after their boat capsized in the Mediterranean overnight. Seventeen migrants had initially been rescued by Malta's armed forces in the country's search and rescue area, but a pregnant woman and...

Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed says the Horn of Africa nation must adopt multiparty democracy supported by strong institutions that respect human rights and rule of law, his chief of staff said on Sunday. "Given our current politics, there is no option except pursuing a multiparty...

Russian and Syrian jets stepped up their bombing of a Daesh bastion along the Jordan-Israel border in southwestern Syria, as the militants pushed into areas abandoned by other rebel groups, diplomatic and opposition sources said. Daesh-affiliated forces entrenched in the Yarmouk Basin,...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- After seven hours of being held by a Shiite militia at the gate of central Homs city, 55 evacuation buses have continued their way to northern Idlib province, activists said Sunday. Asaeb Ahll al-Haq has blocked the evacuation route of hundreds of rebels and their...

Jordan has allowed the UN to organize the passage of some 800 members of the White Helmets civil defense agency for humanitarian reasons, the Jordanian Foreign Ministry said.  According to a Saturday statement, ministry spokesman Mohamed al-Kayed said Amman responded to a request...

The bodies of more than 7,000 people have not been found although more than 20 years have passed since the Bosnian War, an official said. Some 2,000 skeletal remains found in mass graves could not be identified, Bosnia’s Missing Persons Institute press secretary Lejla Cengic told...

Egypt said on Saturday it was raising the price of natural gas for home and commercial use by up to 75 percent, the latest move in an IMF-backed austerity program that has left many Egyptians struggling to make ends meet. The increases follow hikes to fuel, electricity and public...