Tom Brady will attempt to write another chapter of NFL history Sunday as the New England Patriots chase a record-equaling sixth Super Bowl crown against a Philadelphia Eagles team desperate for their first ever win. One year after masterminding the biggest comeback in Super Bowl history,...
Only two months had passed. There was no way Bill Belichick had already forgotten the Patriots had hoisted their second Lombardi Trophy in three years when New England opened minicamp in April. “You would have thought we went 2-14,” safety Devin McCourty said of the edge with which Belichick...
Bombardment by the Syrian regime killed at least 11 civilians Friday in the rebel-held enclave of Eastern Ghouta, east of Damascus, a monitoring group reported. The bloodshed came a day after the latest suspected chlorine attack by the regime of President Bashar Assad on Ghouta, which...
The UN has been unable to make aid deliveries to Syrians for two months, with President Bashar al-Assad withholding approval, a UN adviser said on Thursday. Aid conveys require authorisation from the regime and security guarantees from armed groups before crossing into besieged...
Syria's Kurds Friday accused Turkey-backed rebels fighting them of mutilating then filming the body of one of their female fighters after a video appeared of her corpse. Turkey and allied Syrian rebels have since Jan. 20 pressed an offensive against the Kurdish enclave of Afrin in...
A Syrian airstrike has destroyed a hospital built inside an underground cave, activists said Thursday, as regime forces continue to pound opposition areas. Five missiles struck the medical centre built 20 metres underground, putting the hospital out of service. Buried deep...
Last year in Yemen was harsh, tumultuous and violent. 2018 has brought both hopes of bringing peace and fears of deepening war. Yemenis face two options this year: the war could be bloodier and more inhumane than the previous twelve months - or it could be a window to fruitful peace talks...
(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 6 child fighters killed by Syrian rebels while they were fighting along with the regime forces in January, sources said. Shortage in manpower among the regime forces pushed Bashar al-Assad to recruit children and women in loyal areas to defend his palace...
Turkish authorities Friday ordered the detention of 13 people for supporting the national medical association online, the newspaper Hurriyet reported, after the organization publicly opposed a military campaign in Syria. A prosecutor this week ordered the detention of 11 senior...
At least five people were killed after two army helicopters crashed near a lake in southern France, investigators said Friday. A rescue operation was under way to find the sixth passenger after the crash about 50 kilometres northwest of Saint-Tropez, the circumstances of which...
At least 29 women have been arrested in Iran for appearing in public without a headscarf as protests against the enforced dress code intensify, Iranian media reported Friday. The women have been accused of public order offences and referred to the state persecutor's office....
(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 7 displaced people have burned to death in airstrikes on their van while they were fleeing regime bombardment on rebel-held areas in Idlib and Aleppo, Civil Defense agency said on Friday. The White Helmets rescuing group said the...
(Zaman Al Wasl)- About 20 regime troops from the coastal province of Tartus have been killed in the last two weeks, according to pro-regime social media activists. The death toll included 2 officers and Brigadier General. Activists also reported death of...
The two leading Palestinian factions missed another deadline Thursday to implement a reconciliation deal, potentially burying the landmark accord aimed at ending their decadelong split. The Hamas movement was to hand over power in the Gaza Strip by December to the Palestinian...
Four people were injured Thursday after rockets fired from Syria hit the Turkish border province of Kilis, the governor said. Two rockets hit a restaurant and a house in the center of Kilis on the 13th day of Turkey's offensive against the Kurdish YPG militia in the northern...
A Russian court Thursday sentenced Nikita Belykh, the former governor of a Russian region, to eight years in prison after he was convicted of taking bribes from a businessman, Russian media reported. Belykh, who denied the charges, was governor of the Kirov region north-east of...
Intense battles raged Thursday as Kurdish fighters attempted to repel a new advance by Turkish troops and allied Syrian fighters on their encircled enclave in northwestern Syria. Meanwhile, Syrian government forces pushed into Idlib province, an opposition stronghold nearby,...
(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 97 regime troops from central Homs province were killed in January by ISIS, rebels and former al-Qaeda group in Syria, according to local activists. The death toll included 14 officers killed in the northern provinces of Idlib and Hama, eastern Homs...
A United Nations humanitarian task force has been unable to make deliveries to desperate Syrians for the past two months as President Bashar Assad's government has withheld approval for aid convoys, the U.N. humanitarian adviser said Thursday. Before they can move into besieged...
The interception of a U.S. surveillance plane by a Russian Su-27 fighter jet over the Black Sea this week posed no danger to the U.S. aircraft, Russia's defense ministry was cited as saying on Thursday by the TASS news agency. The defense ministry also proposed Washington halt...
