(Reuters) - U.S. forces said they had killed “two terrorists” in an air strike in southwestern Libya on Saturday as part of efforts to deny militants a safe haven in the country’s vast desert. The strike hit on the outskirts of the city of Ubari and was carried out in coordination with...

At least eight police officers were killed in a Daesh ambush on a highway in Iraq Saturday, according to a local police officer. Diyala Police Captain Habib al-Shammari told Anadolu Agency the ambush took place at the Baghdad-Kirkuk highway. The eight police officers were taken...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime on Saturday has made a swap deal with Daesh to retrieve bodies of troops killed in southern Damascus suburb last Monday.   Unknown number of female detainees was released instead by the regime. Daesh launched a surprise attack on Monday night...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- As more than 105, 000 people have been evacuated from Eastern Ghouta suburbs, activists say the evacuees are suffering harsh humanitarian conditions in the mass detention camps. Thousands of people were transferred to Adra area northeast of the capital where the...

Sergei Skripal, the former Russian spy poisoned in Britain, wrote to President Vladimir Putin several years ago asking for a pardon for selling secrets to British intelligence, a friend told the BBC on Saturday. Vladimir Timoshkov said his old school friend -- who had moved to Britain...

Syrian rebels began evacuating a second part of Eastern Ghouta Saturday, regime-run media said, in the latest such deal this week for the former opposition bastion. "Several buses carrying 500 fighters and their families have reached the Arbin crossing, in preparation for their...

MILAN (AFP) -  Olympic figure skating champion Alina Zagitova, who stunned in Pyeongchang four weeks ago, again left the crowd speechless in Milan on Friday but for a different reason -- delivering a free skate in which she struggled to stay on her feet. The 15-year-old fell three...

Finnish police said Saturday they were seeking to arrest Catalonia's former president Carles Puigdemont under a European arrest warrant issued by Spain, but did not know his whereabouts. Puigdemont, who lives in self-imposed exile in Belgium, has been visiting Finland since Thursday for...

Sayed Ahmed AlWadaei, a prominent Bahraini rights campaigner exiled in Britain, said Saturday a Bahraini court had sentenced his wife to two months in jail in absentia this week and that his mother-in-law had begun a hunger strike in jail. AlWadaei, director of the Bahrain Institute for...

Ivorians voted for a new senate on Saturday in a poll likely to shore up President Alassane Ouattara's grip on power, amidst an opposition boycott, while doing little to relieve ethnic tensions lingering from a decade of crisis. The creation of the upper house, a provision of the new...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- A newly-taken photo near Eastern Ghouta suburbs has recalled days of feudalism and enslavement as regime officials and pro-Assad's warlords hurry to distribute sandwiches and water on the evacuees from the stricken district. Syrian activists, including pro-regime...

 After the UN gave Russia coordinates of hospitals in East Ghouta, near Syria’s capital Damascus, Russian forces have reportedly attacked one of the facilities. Jan Egeland, the head of the UN’s humanitarian operations for Syria, tweeted on Thursday that the coordinates had...

Several thousand people marched through the Croatian capital Saturday in protest against a European treaty designed to protect women. The demonstration gathered up to 10,000 people according to journalists' estimates and was held two days after conservative Prime Minister Andrej...

 Malaysian police have arrested seven men with links to the Daesh (ISIS) militant group who were planning attacks on non-Muslim places of worship and other targets, authorities said Saturday. The Muslim-majority country has been on high alert since gunmen allied with Daesh carried...

Italian lawmakers have elected the speakers of both chambers of parliament following an inconclusive March 4 election, giving the anti-establishment 5-Star Movement leadership of one chamber and Silvio Berlusconi's Forza Italia the other. Forza Italia Sen. Maria Elisabetta Alberti...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 7 people have been killed and 25 more wounded in suspected car bomb blast in northern Idlib city, Civil Defense rescuing groups and local media unit said Saturday. The exposition took place in a crowded street in the city center, according to Idlib Media...

Russia's Defence Ministry said more than 105,000 people have left Eastern Ghouta rebel enclave, including another 700 on Saturday since government forces began an assault to retake it a month ago, RIA news agency reported, citing the military. RIA referred to evacuations taking place...

Iran on Saturday slammed new U.S. sanctions against 10 of its citizens and an Iranian company over their alleged involvement in a massive state-sponsored hacking and intellectual property theft scheme. The U.S. Treasury Department unveiled charges on Friday against nine Iranians along...

 A gendarme who voluntarily took the place of a hostage during a deadly supermarket siege in southwestern France on Friday has died, Interior Minister Gerard Collomb said. Arnaud Beltrame, who once served in Iraq, had been raced to hospital fighting for his life after the siege in...

Rim Banna, a leading Palestinian singer, songwriter, and composer, has died after battling breast cancer for almost nine years. The 51-year-old died in her hometown of Nazareth in Israel, and is survived by her mother, brother, and three children. Family members confirmed via...