At least one Palestinian fisherman was killed and two others injured when Israeli Navy opened fire at a fishing boat off Gaza's coast, Israeli media reported. Two Israeli soldiers were also injured in the incident, broadcaster Channel 2 reported, without explaining the nature of the...

More than 1,000 civilians, including children and women, have been killed since mid-November in attacks by the Syrian regime and its allies including Russia in besieged Eastern Ghouta, according to a U.K-based human rights watchdog. Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR) said in a...

The leaders of Germany and France urged Russia Sunday to exert "maximum pressure" on Syria for an "immediate" implementation of a U.N. ceasefire in the war-ravaged country, Berlin said. German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Emmanuel Macron stressed in a telephone call...

Harry Kane struck late to secure Tottenham Hotspur's 1-0 victory at Crystal Palace Sunday that moved Mauricio Pochettino's side into the top four immediately ahead of Chelsea's visit to Manchester United. Spurs appeared set for disappointment after struggling to break down a Crystal Palace...

A resolution accepted unanimously by the U.N. Security Council for a 30-day ceasefire across Syria will not impact Turkey's offensive against Kurdish fighters in Afrin, Deputy Prime Minister Bekir Bozdag said Sunday. The U.N. resolution on Saturday followed seven straight days of...

An Iraqi court has sentenced 16 Turkish women to death by hanging for joining Daesh (ISIS), a judiciary spokesman said Sunday. Iraq is conducting the trials of hundreds of foreign women who have been detained, with hundreds of their children, since August by Iraqi forces as Daesh...

A protest against the ongoing Syrian government offensive in the Damascus suburb of Eastern Ghouta was held in front of the Russian Embassy in Beirut on Sunday.

Reuters) - Pope Francis on Sunday said Syria was being "martyred" by continued attacks killing civilians in the eastern Ghouta district, calling for an immediate end to violence and access to humanitarian aid. "All this is inhuman," Francis told tens of thousands of people in St....

Former co-leader of PYD/PKK terrorist group Salih Muslim has been arrested in the Czech capital, said Turkish security officials on Sunday. Muslim was arrested in Prague on Saturday, said the officials on condition of anonymity due to restrictions on speaking to the media. The...

Three members of a pro-government militia were injured in a suicide bombing in Iraq’s oil-rich Kirkuk province on Sunday, according to a local police officer.   A bomber blew himself up near a headquarters of the Shia Hashd al-Shaabi militia in central Kirkuk, Capt. Hamed al-Obaidi...

Turkish Armed Forces and Free Syrian Army (FSA) liberated five more villages on Sunday as part of Operation Olive Branch in northwestern Syria’s Afrin.  The villages of Shaykh Muhammad, Kunda Dudu, Samalik, "Velikli" and "Kavanda" in the Rajo area, located northwest of Afrin, were...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- If it is right to say the 7th of February events represent the "mother of battles" that Washington fought directly in Syria because of the large number of fatalities, the Russian side represents what can be described as "the mother of the fighter" and for the same reason,...

PYEONGCHANG, South Korea: Marit Bjoergen grabbed a record-extending 15th Winter Olympics medal as she won the 30km cross country to put Norway top of the final medals table in Pyeongchang Sunday. The cross-country legend, 37, signed off in style after a glittering Olympic career as she...

At least two people were wounded as police fired live bullets and tear gas Sunday to break up a banned protest against DR Congo President Joseph Kabila in Kisangani, the country's third largest city, an AFP reporter said. Hundreds starting marching after mass at the city's cathedral but...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Three civilians killed early Sunday in Ghouta suburbs as regime and allied militias launched fresh ground and aerial strikes on the eastern enclave of Damascus in spite of a UN resolution calling for a 30-day truce, local activists said. Activists say 500 people have...

Several 3,000-year old tombs were discovered in Minya, about 245 kilometres (152 miles) south of Cairo, Egyptian authorities announced Friday. Khaled al-Anani, the minister of antiquities, said in a statement that eight tombs containing 40 sarcophagi and roughly 1,000 figurines had been...

QAMISHLI (AFP)- Iraq and Syria’s Kurds have netted foreign militants by the thousands but while the former is expediting trials, the latter would rather send them home. A Baghdad court Monday sentenced French woman Melina Boughedir to seven months in prison, a term she had already served by the...

Daesh (ISIS) claimed responsibility for a double suicide car bombing in the southern Yemeni port city of Aden Saturday that witnesses and local medics said killed and wounded dozens. They said the attacks appeared to have targeted a camp used by anti-terrorism forces in south-western Aden....

Arab League Secretary-General Ahmad Abu Al-Ghait on Saturday said the U.S. decision to move its embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem was a "provocation". Washington announced on Friday that it would move its embassy on May 14, to coincide with the day the state of Israel was established...

UN Security Council unanimously approves resolution demanding 30-day ceasefire in Syria "without delay" AP