At least 31 refugees who were trying to cross to Europe from Libya drowned on Saturday, a Libyan military spokesperson said.  Capt. Ayoub Qasim, Libyan Naval Forces spokesman, told Anadolu Agency that coast guard teams reached the bodies of 31 refugees east of the capital...

ebanon’s prime minister on Saturday accused Lebanese resistance movement Hezbollah of “intervening in the internal affairs of the region’s countries”. “We will not accept Hezbollah’s position that affect our Arab brothers or targets the stability and security in region’s countries,”...

Chancellor Angela Merkel set her sights on forthcoming talks with the Social Democrats (SPD) as a path to forming a stable government in Germany and rejected new elections after three-way coalition talks collapsed last weekend. Merkel’s fourth term was cast into doubt when the...

Russian long-range bombers hit Daesh (ISIS) targets in the northeast of Syria on Saturday, Russian news agencies cited the Russian Defence Ministry as saying.

(Eqtsad)- Despite the decline in the Dollar exchange rate in Syria in general and the liberated areas in particular, people in southern Daraa province continue to complain about the high prices of all materials. Prices of basic materials such as fuel and other materials controlled by...

(Zaman Al Wasl)-At least 10 displaced people, including women and children, have been killed in Russian airstrikes on a refugee camp in eastern Deir Ezzor province, topping the death toll to 33 in the past 48 hours, local media unit said on Saturday. Furat Post news site said 60 more...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- ISIS-planted landmines have killed five civilians in eastern Raqqa city, local monitoring group said on Saturday. Raqqa Is Being Slaughtered Silently said 5 people had been killed in explosives left by ISIS militants. The radical group was defeated by the US-backed...

Turkey and Russia will meet more regularly to deal with the ongoing civil war in Syria, Turkey’s president said on Saturday. “Perhaps every 15 days or once a month we will continue our gatherings,” Recep Tayyip Erdogan told a provincial meeting of the Justice and Development (AK) Party...

Gunmen who attacked a mosque in North Sinai were carrying an Islamic State flag, Egyptian officials said on Saturday as the state news agency reported the death toll had risen to 305, including 27 children. Egypt’s military said they had carried out air strikes and raids overnight...

ISIS (Daesh) may be on the run from its last bastion in Syria but the United States is gearing up for a longer stay in the country. And if U.S. forces are to counter Iranian and Russian influence as Syria struggles to emerge from civil war, they will need Turkey's help. But...

A Syrian warplane struck an orphanage in Eastern Ghouta suburb of Damascus on Saturday, according to a spokesman for the Turkish IHH humanitarian agency. Speaking to Anadolu Agency, Selim Tosun said the attack targeted the “Hope Tree” orphanage, which accommodates 50 children....

Zimbabwe court rules military takeover legal: state media

Syria’s grinding war has killed over 340,000 people since it broke out in 2011, including more than 100,000 civilians, an activist group said Friday. The death toll increased as key international powers step up diplomatic efforts to bring an end to the brutal conflict, and just days...

 London’s police force said on Friday that they had stood down after an incident in the heart of London’s shopping district that they initially responded to as if it could have been terrorist-related. “Our response on #OxfordStreet has now been stood down,” the Metropolitan Police...

The Pentagon is expected to acknowledge as early as Monday that the U.S. has about 2,000 troops in Syria, according to a Reuters report. The number does not represent an increase in troop levels in the country, but simply reflects a more accurate count. The official troop count in Syria...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 12 fighters loyal to Bashar al-Assad were killed on Friday in clashes with ISIS in Homs desert, pro-regime news feeds said. Two Hezbollah militants were among the casualties of al-Hemeima battles as the regime forces press to capture last ISIS strongholds in...

 Uber submitted a request to appeal to the Supreme Court a decision by a British tribunal which said its drivers deserved workers’ rights such as the minimum wage, the taxi app said on Friday. Last year, two drivers successfully argued at a British employment tribunal that Uber...

Bangladesh and Myanmar have agreed to take assistance from the U.N. refugee agency for the repatriation of hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims, Bangladesh Foreign Minister Abul Hassan Mahmood Ali said on Saturday. The two governments signed a pact on Thursday settling the terms...

In the deadliest attack on civilians in Egypt’s modern history, Islamist militants detonated a bomb inside a crowded mosque on Friday and then sprayed gunfire on panicked worshipers as they fled the building, killing at least 235 people and wounding at least 109 others. The scale and...

Iran said on Thursday that Saudi Arabia’s crown prince was discredited internationally by his “immature” behavior, state television reported, after Mohammed bin Salman called Iran’s Supreme Leader “the new Hitler of the Middle East”. “No one in the world and in the international arena...