This is Ahmad Hamdan. The 26-year-old activist and filmmaker lived in Eastern Ghouta, Syria. facebook.com Earlier this month, Hamdan used the hashtag #IAmStillAlive on Facebook, hoping to draw attention to the situation in his home. facebook.com...
U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson's firing is reverberating across a Middle East where Iran fears his replacement will fight to end the 2015 nuclear deal, a hope of Gulf Arab states as Palestinians worry about a further-emboldened nationalist Israeli government. Also at play is the...
Turkish forces shelled the Kurdish-held northern Syrian town of Afrin on Wednesday killing at least seven people, Kurdish forces reported, as government shelling and airstrikes killed at least 20 civilians in the besieged eastern Ghouta enclave near the capital Damascus, activists said....
(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian rebels took two towns from regime army in the northwestern province of Hama, according to a statement posted online Wednesday. Jaish al-Izza said the attack was in retaliation to the ongoing onslaught on the Eastern Ghouta suburbs that claimed lives of 1200...
(Zaman Al Wasl)- 160 sick and injured civilians have been evacuated from the besieged Eastern Ghouta suburb s on Wednesday, in a second batch followed 190 wounded evacuated on Tuesday, local reporter said. Russia’s Task Command in coastal Hmeimym base, which brokered the evacuation...
NEW YORK (AFP)- Ford announced Wednesday a North American recall of 1.38 million Ford Fusion and Lincoln MKZ sedans to address loose steering wheel bolts that could lead to the steering wheel detaching. In the cars being recalled, the steering wheel "may not maintain torque, allowing...
BEIRUT (AFP)- Bombardment by the Syrian regime and its ally Russia killed 25 civilians, among them three children, in the embattled rebel enclave of Eastern Ghouta Wednesday, a monitor said. "At least 25 civilians including three children were killed on Wednesday, most of them in regime air...
TEHRAN: U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson's sacking shows that Washington is set on quitting the nuclear deal between Tehran and world powers, Iran's deputy foreign minister said Wednesday. "The United States is determined to leave the nuclear deal, and changes at the State...
STRASBOURG, France: A European Parliament delegation said Wednesday it has been conducting secret talks with North Korea over the last three years to try to persuade Pyongyang to negotiate an end to its nuclear program. The group led by British MEP Nirj Deva has met senior North Korean...
PARIS: Barely six months after Paris was picked to host the 2024 Olympics and more than six years before those Games are scheduled to open, French budgetary watchdogs are warning of cost overruns. To prevent what one French economist, Wladimir Andreff, called "the curse of the...
GENEVA (Reuters)- Syria's war could still produce "tremendous battles" in its eighth year, even though the fight for the besieged enclave of eastern Ghouta appears to be the latest in a string of "end battles", a senior U.N. adviser on Syria said Wednesday. Jan Egeland, head of the...
LONDON (Reuters)- Britain will expel 23 Russian diplomats in response to a nerve toxin attack on a Russian former double agent in southern England, Prime Minister Theresa May said Wednesday, adding it was the biggest single expulsion in over 30 years. May said Britain would also...
BRUSSELS (AP)- The European Union's trade chief questioned Wednesday U.S. President Donald Trump's rationale in proposing steel and aluminum import tariffs on a longstanding ally and said his move undermined trans-Atlantic ties ever more. Trade Commissioner Cecilia Malmstrom told the EU...
BEIRUT: Water to Syria's Afrin town has been cut for a week, the United Nations said Wednesday, after Turkish troops seized the main dam and water plant in the region. Ankara launched an offensive nearly two months ago against the town, to drive out Syrian Kurdish forces that control...
Local authorities outside Damascus say regime forces have cut off their town from a surrounding rebel-held Eastern Ghouta, isolating 20,000 residents with no access to aid. A member of the local council of Harasta said Wednesday that residents have been in underground shelters for long...
MOSCOW (Reuters)- The Kremlin Wednesday said ties with the U.S. could not get any worse under next Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, after the sacking of Rex Tillerson. "It's hardly possible to fall below the floor, so it is unlikely things will get any worse in this regard," presidential...
ANKARA (Reuters)- Turkish Recep President Tayyip Wednesday threatened to soon crush militants in northern Iraq, after his foreign minister last week said Ankara and Baghdad would carry out a joint offensive against Kurdish militants in Iraq. "We are checking the terror nests in northern...
MOSCOW (Reuters)- Russia will speed up initial deliveries of S-400 surface-to-air missile batteries to Turkey, Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Wednesday, speaking at a press conference in Moscow together with his Turkish counterpart Mevlut Cavusoglu. Russia and Turkey...
MOSCOW: Turkey wants to a continue a relationship of understanding with incoming U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, but the CIA chief must learn that Ankara needs to be respected, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said Wednesday. At a news conference in Moscow with his Russian...
(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime forces have intensified ground and aerial bombing overnight on Douma and Harasta, the key towns of Eastern Ghouta suburbs, as rebels still show fierce resistance despite the deadliest offensive, local reporter said Wednesday. Zaman al-Wasl reporter said...
