British police launched a murder probe Friday into the death of Russian exile Nikolai Glushkov in London, after a post-mortem found he died from "compression to the neck." "A murder investigation has been launched following the results of a post-mortem into the death of...

Thousands of civilians were fleeing from besieged enclaves on opposite ends of Syria Friday as two major battles in the multi-sided war entered decisive phases, with hundreds of thousands of people trapped in the path of both assaults. Air strikes killed scores of people in eastern...

  Egyptians abroad began voting Friday, ten days before polls open at home in a presidential election that President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi is effectively guaranteed to win, but in which turnout could provide an indication of his popularity. The former army chief's only challenger,...

MOSCOW (Reuters)- The Kremlin said Friday that British accusations that President Vladimir Putin was involved in a nerve agent attack in England were shocking and unforgivable, TASS news agency reported. British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson said earlier on Friday that it was...

NEW DELHI (AFP)- India's state-run carrier Air India said Friday it will fly over Saudi airspace to Tel Aviv, a move that ends a decades-long Saudi ban on the use of its airspace for flights to Israel. "The Air India flights to Israel will start from March 22. The flights will take...

 The United Nations said Friday there were "alarming reports" that Kurdish forces are blocking civilians from leaving the Syrian enclave of Afrin faced with a looming siege, and could be using them as "human shields". The U.N. rights office said it had been receiving "deeply...

LONDON (AFP)- An 18-year-old Iraqi asylum seeker was on Friday found guilty of attempted murder over the botched bombing of a rush-hour London Underground train that injured 30 people. "The prosecution argued that Ahmed Hassan made this homemade bomb with the aim of indiscriminately...

MOSCOW (Reuters)- The Russian military said that 4,127 people had left Syria's rebel-held eastern Ghouta Friday, the TASS news agency reported, citing a senior military official. "As of now, 4,127 people have left the area. They are mainly old people, women and children," Russian Major...

IRBIL, Iraq (AP)- Iraq's Kurdish region has commemorated the 30th anniversary of Saddam Hussein's 1988 gas attack in the northeastern Kurdish town of Halabja that killed 5,000 people. Kurdish officials delivered speeches to a crowd of hundreds gathered for the ceremony at a stadium in...

The president of the International Criminal Court's member assembly said Friday he regretted an announcement by the Philippines that it intends to withdraw from the court. O-Gon Kwon of South Korea encouraged the country to remain a member and "engage in dialogue" rather than...

BERLIN (Reuters)- Syrians in Germany, angered by a far-right politician's statement that their coffee was paid for by German taxpayers, responded on social media with the hashtag "I pay for my coffee", tagging the politician, who recently visited Syria. Last week, seven members of the...

Manchester City will face Liverpool in an all-English Champions League quarter-final while Juventus play holders Real Madrid in a repeat of last year's final. Surprise qualifiers Sevilla will take on Bayern Munich and Barcelona were paired with AS Roma in the draw in Nyon on Friday.

At least 60 civilians were killed Friday and hundreds more injured when Syrian regime and Russian warplanes struck a crowded market in Eastern Ghouta with incendiary bombs. According to an Anadolu Agency correspondent in the town of Kafr Batna, warplanes had targeted the town’s...

Heavy airstrikes targeted a rebel-held area of Eastern Ghouta on Friday, killing 10 people in the town of Saqba, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. The Observatory said Russian jets carried out the strikes, citing its activist network on the ground. Advancing Syrian...

The Turkish military and Free Syrian Army (FSA) on Friday liberated two more villages and two strategic hills in Afrin, northwestern Syria from the control of YPG militia. According to Anadolu Agency correspondents on the ground, the villages of Miske Fawkani and Miske Tahtani and two...

The anti-Daesh coalition on Thursday says a U.S. military helicopter carrying seven American troops crashed in western Iraq. "Rescue teams are responding to the scene of the downed aircraft at this time," Combined Joint Task Force – Operation Inherent Resolve (CJTF–OIR) said in a...

Atletico Madrid from Spain claimed a ticket for the UEFA Europa League quarter finals after beating Russian opponents Lokomotiv Moscow 5-1 in Europa League Round of 16 second leg on Thursday evening. Hosted by Lokomotiv Moscow, Atletico Madrid took the lead in the 16th minute of the...

Civilians in Syria's northwestern Idlib province long for the day when the civil war will end and they will be able to return to their homes.  Around 300,000 civilians live in Atma village of Idlib, right on the Turkey-Syria border, across Hatay province in southeastern Turkey....

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Jaish al-Islam on Thursday denied reports of reaching an evacuation deal with Russia from the stricken town of Douma in Eastern Ghouta suburbs. Yaser Delwan, head of the Political Bureau in the key Islamist group, said on his official Twitter account that social media...

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Thursday spoke over the phone to discuss bilateral and Turkey-EU relations, and regional issues, according to diplomatic sources. During the conversation, Erdogan congratulated Merkel for being re-elected to a fourth...