(DW)- Over 1,000 Islamists have left Germany to aid terror groups in Syria and Iraq, a report cites the government as saying. And it says more than half of them hold German passports. The German government knows of more than 1,000 Islamists who have left Germany for Syria or Iraq to...

Daesh (ISIS) claimed responsibility for an attack on a church in Russia's Chechnya republic that killed three people, the group's Amaq news agency said Sunday. The group offered no evidence in support of the claim. Four people attacked the Orthodox church on Saturday, killing...

Rafael nadal won the Rome Masters for the eighth time Sunday when he defeated defending champion Alexander Zverev 6-1, 1-6, 6-3 after a stunning comeback. German second seed Zverev was 3-1 up in the decider before two rain stoppages halted his momentum. Top seed nadal raced away...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The U.S.-backed Syrian forces pressed new advances against Daesh in Deir Ezzor province, on Sunday, activists said. The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), backed by the U.S. and French artillery have seized strategic hilltop near al-Hajeen town, the key stronghold of...

An Egyptian television series being shown during the Muslim month of Ramadan has angered neighbouring Sudan, prompting Khartoum to lodge an official complaint with Cairo. The series, titled Abu Omar al-Masri, revolves around an Egyptian Islamist associate of al-Qaeda leader and founder...

 More than 10,000 Moroccans chanting "Death to Israel" took to the streets of Casablanca Sunday to protest against the U.S. decision to move its embassy in Israel to occupied Jerusalem. The marchers carried Palestinian flags and placards that read "Al Quds (Jerusalem) Palestine's...

US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin confirmed Sunday that Washington and Beijing had agreed to back off from imposing tariffs on each other, a day after reaching an accord on slashing the American trade deficit with China. "We have made very meaningful progress and we agreed on a...

TEHRAN (Reuters) - The European Union is not doing enough to preserve the benefits for Iran from the 2015 international nuclear pact following the withdrawal of the United States, Iran’s foreign minister told the EU’s energy chief on Sunday “With the withdrawal of America, (Iran’s)...

BERLIN (Reuters) - Three European Union sources have denied that diplomats meeting in Vienna on Friday to salvage the imperiled Iranian nuclear deal after Washington withdrew will discuss offering Iran financial aid in exchange for concessions. A German newspaper reported on Sunday that...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- A mass food poisoning at a camp for displaced people near the northern city of Idlib has sickened tens of people, medics told Zaman al-Wasl on Sunday. Dr. Jamal Abu Mahmoud said 154 people, including 80 children, took ill in the village of al-Ghadfa in the southern...

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has been hospitalized in a West Bank hospital, a Palestinian official said on Saturday, providing no further details on his condition. It was the third time Abbas, 82, had been hospitalized in a week. He underwent minor ear surgery on Tuesday and was...

A war monitor said buses evacuated Islamic State fighters from an enclave south of Damascus on Sunday in a withdrawal deal, though state media denied the report and said the Syrian army was fighting to finish off the insurgents. The recovery of the enclave south of Damascus will mark...

Polling stations across Venezuela opened Sunday for a presidential election boycotted by the opposition in which President Nicolas Maduro is expected to be easily reelected. Maduro, the political heir to the late leftist firebrand Hugo Chavez, is expected to defeat Henri Falcon, a...

  (Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian Kurdish Democratic Union (PYD) launched wide conscription campaign, chasing Kurdish and Arab youth in Raqqa and Hasaka provinces who refuse to join the militia, activists said. Activist Mahmoud al-Ahmed said YPG, the armed wing of PYD, had set up...

Congo's health ministry says there is one new death from Ebola, bringing to 26 the number of deaths from the deadly outbreak in Equateur province in the country's northwest. In a statement the health ministry said four new cases have been confirmed as Ebola. A total of 46 cases of...

French special forces have established six artillery batteries in a terror group YPG/PKK-held area near Syria's border with Iraq, according to local sources. The sources said French troops, which support the terror group in Syria, have established artillery batteries in the north of...

Head of the Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) in northern Iraq, Nechirvan Barzani, on Saturday called for the formation of a coalition government.  "We should form a new coalition government in Iraq based on the principle of consensus and effective partnership with the Kurds," he...

Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed on Saturday said he had secured the release of 1,000 Ethiopians from Saudi prisons. He broke the news on his return from the Kingdom. An hour after the prime minister's plane landed at the Addis Ababa airport, an aircraft carrying 690 prisoners aboard...

Wesal al-Sheikh Khalil, a 15-year-old Palestinian girl, spent Sunday joking with her little sisters in their cramped apartment in the Gaza Strip.  She was preparing to join mass rallies the following day against the decades-long Israeli occupation on the Gaza Strip’s eastern...

HAVANA (Reuters) - Cuban authorities said the fiery crash of an aging Boeing passenger jet on Friday shortly after takeoff from Havana had killed 110 of the 113 on board, making it the Caribbean island’s deadliest air disaster in nearly 30 years. Flags flew at half-mast in Cuba on...