(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 11 SDF fighters killed by Daesh in northeastern Hasaka province, local activist said Saturday. Mohamed al-Kheder, Hasaka-based activist said the Daesh surprise attack took place near the town of la-Shadadi in the southern side of Hasaka late on Friday....

Two Palestinian civilians were killed and eight others injured in an explosion at an eastern neighbourhood of the Gaza Strip, the Palestinian Health Ministry said on Saturday. The incident took place in Shejaiya neighbourhood after fireworks exploded, said Ashraf al-Qidra, the ministry...

Global soccer governing body FIFA said Saturday it had fined World Cup hosts Russia 10,000 Swiss francs ($10,098.97) after their fans displayed a discriminatory banner during the country's 3-0 loss to Uruguay. Russia play Spain on Sunday after the country reached the World Cup knockout...

The Jordanian army began delivering humanitarian aid to thousands of displaced Syrians who took shelter near its border when major fighting broke out in southern Syria this month, a government spokeswoman said Saturday. "This is in line with Jordan's stance to help our Syrian brothers,"...

Negotiations between the Syrian opposition groups and Russia on Saturday could not end with a peace deal in the southern Daraa province. According to local sources, Russian delegation and the opposition forces -- who are under attack by the Bashar al-Assad regime forces lately -- met to...

President Donald Trump said Saturday that he had received assurances from King Salman of Saudi Arabia that the kingdom will increase oil production, "maybe up to 2,000,000 barrels" in response to turmoil in Iran and Venezuela. Saudi Arabia acknowledged the call took place, but mentioned no...

Thousands of Palestinians Saturday attended the funeral of the 11-year-old son of a Hamas military commander killed by Israeli fire in the southern Gaza Strip, with mourners demanding "revenge". Yasser Abu al-Naja, whose father is a member of Hamas's military wing, was shot in the head...

A string of Syrian rebel-held towns and villages accepted government rule Saturday as rebel lines collapsed in parts of the southwest under an intense bombardment that the United Nations says has forced 160,000 people to flee. The southwest was an early hotbed of the uprising against...

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, deeply alarmed by the military offensive in southwestern Syria and its devastating toll on civilians, is calling for an immediate cessation of military operations, his spokesman said Friday. Noting that the southwest area of Syria is part of a...

Turkish military chief Gen. Hulusi Akar on Friday visited military brigades stationed on the border with Syria. Akar was accompanied by Land Forces Commander Yasar Guler, Air Forces Commander Hasan Kucukakyuz, and Naval Forces Commander Adnan Ozbal, according to Anadolu Agency...

The Pentagon said Friday said the U.S. or the anti-Daesh coalition will not involve itself in the Syrian regime's attacks on rebel-held towns in southern Syria. Speaking at a news conference, Pentagon spokesman Eric Pahon was asked by an Anadolu Agency reporter whether the U.S. is...

 Earlier this month, Maya Merhi, 8, born with no legs due to a congenital condition, was moving around a Syrian displaced persons camp on artificial limbs made of plastic tubing and tin cans. But after pictures of her plight, including those taken by AFP in Syria, were seen around the...

 Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has warned that Russia could walk away from the global chemical weapons watchdog after member nations voted to allow the group to assign blame for chemical attacks. In an interview with Britain's Channel 4 News, Lavrov denounced a vote this...

The number of displaced people in southern Syria has more than tripled to 160,000 in the latest fighting, the U.N. refugee agency’s Jordan spokesman Mohammad Hawar said on Friday. "We expect the numbers during the night to rise further," Hawar said. The last U.N. figure issued Monday...

President Donald Trump wants to withdraw the U.S. from the World Trade Organization (WTO), according to a report on Friday, which could push the country further into isolationism and greatly hurt global trade. "He’s [threatened to withdraw] 100 times. It would totally [screw] us as a...

Extremist Jewish settlers on Friday set fire to Palestinian farmland in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, according to a Palestinian official. “A group of settlers from the Itamar settlement east of the West Bank city of Nablus set fire to farmland adjacent to the [Palestinian] town of...

Israel must prevent the entry of refugees fleeing fighting in Syria, a senior Israeli cabinet minister said Friday. The remarks by Yuval Steinitz, energy minister in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government, came on the same day that the Israeli military said it had transferred...

Islamist militants raided the headquarters of a regional military taskforce in central Mali Friday afternoon, opening fire with rockets and guns and attempting to infiltrate the base, the defence ministry said. There were no immediate details on casualties at the compound in Sevare used...

A Jordanian official source said Friday there were confirmed reports of a ceasefire in southern Syria that would lead to "reconciliation" between the opposition and government forces. The source did not elaborate further on the reports of an agreement in the territory where Syrian...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel defended the migration deal clinched at an E.U. summit on Friday, describing it as a decisive step in the direction of a common European asylum policy. "What we achieved here together is perhaps more than I had expected," Merkel told reporters at the end...