The US-led Syrian Democratic Forces headquarters were attacked by Syrian pro-regime forces on Wednesday, and American-led coalition forces responded with an airstrike during the attack, the military said Wednesday evening. The attack from the pro-regime forces was unprovoked, and in...

The United Nations launched an appeal Wednesday for $17 million to rebuild essential health facilities for children in Iraq after a devastating three-year battle to expel Daesh (ISIS). The U.N. children's fund, UNICEF, said next week's reconstruction conference for Iraq to be staged in...

The White House Wednesday warned Iran that it will be held responsible for the health of 81-year-old American citizen Baquer Namazi, who was recently sent back to prison after medical treatment. "He remains in urgent need of sustained medical care, and the United States government holds...

The leader of Germany's Social Democrats (SPD) said he was optimistic that he could persuade his party's members to back the coalition deal he sealed with Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives Wednesday morning. Martin Schulz said he would step down as leader of the party after the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least ten civilians killed and dozen more wounded in heavy aerial bombing on the northern province of Idlib, Civil Defense agency said Wednesday. The deadly strikes hit the town of Maarrat al-Nu'man, according to the rescuing group.  Meanwhile, the death...

The U.S. Justice Department announced one of its largest-ever takedowns of a global cyber crime ring Wednesday, saying it had indicted 36 people accused of trafficking in stolen identities and causing more than $530 million in losses to consumers. The cyber crime network, known as...

Syrian Kurdish fighters accused the Turkish army Wednesday of shelling a primary school and a water plant in Syria's northern Afrin region. Nouri Mahmoud, spokesman of the Syrian Kurdish YPG militia, said Turkish forces and their Syrian insurgent allies damaged the water plant...

Bahraini authorities say police have arrested four men suspected of being behind a blast that ripped through a state-run oil pipeline in November. A statement by the Interior Ministry says two of those arrested received "intensive training" in Iranian Revolutionary Guard camps in...

THE HAGUE: International watchdog OPCW said Wednesday it is probing "all credible allegations" of the use of chemical weapons in Syria, amid growing reports of their alleged deployment by the Damascus regime. A fact-finding mission from the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical...

MOSCOW: Russia is talking to Turkey about gaining access to the crash site of a Russian SU-25 jet downed near Idlib in northern Syria, Interfax news agency cited Vladimir Shamanov, head of the Russian parliament's defense committee, as saying Wednesday.

A Turkish court Wednesday sentenced 64 military personnel to life in prison for involvement in a failed military coup in July 2016, state-run Anadolu news agency said. One hundred other defendants were acquitted, reports said. The indictment said leaders of the coup had flown...

Israeli forces started construction Wednesday on a controversial wall along the south Lebanon border, Al-Manar TV reported. "The Israeli army has begun construction on the cement wall in Ras Naqqoura," the television reported.

Egypt Wednesday warned Turkey against any infringement of its economic rights in the eastern Mediterranean under a maritime border demarcation agreement signed in 2013 with Cyprus that allows exploration for gas in the area. The discovery of the massive Zohr gas field in 2015 has...

Air strikes killed 23 civilians including five children in a rural part of the rebel-held Eastern Ghouta region near Damascus Wednesday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. "The death toll from air strikes that targeted Eastern Ghouta villages increased to 23 people, including...

BERLIN (Reuters) - Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservatives and the Social Democrats (SPD) have agreed on a formal coalition deal, a conservative politician and a source involved in the negotiations said on Wednesday. Another source could not confirm an agreement had been sealed,...

Iraqi forces backed by the U.S.-led coalition began a major operation Wednesday against Daesh (ISIS) militants hiding out in a northeastern desert region, the military said. The army, rapid intervention forces and paramilitaries, in coordination with Kurdish fighters and with Iraqi and...

SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s younger sister, Kim Yo Jong, will visit South Korea to attend the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics on Friday, Seoul’s Unification Ministry said on Wednesday. Pyongyang notified Seoul that Kim Yo Jong would be accompanying...

Iraqi authorities published a list of most wanted fugitives Tuesday headed by elusive Daesh (ISIS) group leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and his No. 2. It was the second list the Iraqi government had published this week of people wanted on suspicion of belonging to Daesh , Al-Qaeda or...

Fuel for emergency generators that keep Gaza’s hospitals and sanitation services operating will run out within 10 days, the United Nations said Tuesday in an appeal for immediate donor support. The shortage stems from a dispute between Gaza’s dominant Hamas and the West Bank-based...

Damascus-based activists early Wedensday reported heavy Israeli missile attack on suspected chemical facility in Jamraya north of the capital. Sources revealed that Iran is running Chlorine gas facility in Jemraya's research centre. the gas which has been used twice during the week by...