Daesh's presence in Iraq is “militarily” finished and all cities have been retaken, the Iraqi prime minister said on Tuesday. Speaking at a weekly news briefing in Baghdad, Haider al-Abadi said the Daesh presence in a desert area in the west of the city of Anbar would come to an end...

France can play a productive role in the Middle East by taking a “realistic and impartial approach”, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani told his French counterpart, Emmanuel Macron, in a phone call on Tuesday, according to Iranian state media. Tensions between Iran and France increased...

Lebanon’s President Michel Aoun on Tuesday told Arab states that dealing with Lebanon required wisdom otherwise the country would be pushed “towards the fire”. Aoun’s warning followed an Arab League meeting on Sunday whose closing communique condemned the Iran-backed Lebanese Shi‘ite...

Children face severe malnutrition, while the Syrian government continues to bomb the enclave in defiance of a July 'de-escalation' agreement The rebel-held enclave of East Ghouta in Syria is facing a critical humanitarian crisis, the UN and local activists say, as...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 160 militants from the paramilitary National Defense Units have arrived in Deir Ezzor province as fighting with the Islamic State still underway in the eastern countryside, local media unit said Tuesday. The reinforcement comes as regime forces seek to...

A car bomb killed at least 21 people and wounded dozens in a flashpoint town north of Baghdad Tuesday, a security official told AFP. Tuz Khurmatu, home to a mixed Kurdish, Arab and Turkmen population, was the scene of deadly violence in mid-October when Iraqi forces retook it from...

Tunisia will continue with a package of painful economic policies, Prime Minister Youssef Chahed said Tuesday, despite resistance from labor unions and business associations to changes that will raise taxes and put thousands out of work. The North African country is under pressure from...

(Reuters) - A sound detected on Monday in the South Atlantic, near where an Argentine navy submarine with 44 crew went missing five days ago, is not believed to have come from the ill-fated vessel, a navy spokesman said. The sound detected by probes initially raised hopes that crew...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The Syrian regime seeks to seal a reconciliation deal in Eastern Qalamoun region, such a move aims to secure the capital , local activists said. The defeat of ISIS in eastern Syria and the shift in the Saudi Arabia stance towards Bashar al-Assad's future role were a...

Russia said on Tuesday that the resignation of “radically minded” Syrian opposition figures such as Riyad Hijab would help unite the disparate opponents of President Bashar al-Assad around a more “realistic” platform. Hijab, a former Syrian prime minister, stepped down on Monday as head...

Lebanon’s army chief urged “full readiness” at the southern border to face the “threats of the Israeli enemy and its violations,” the army said in a tweet on Tuesday. Army Commander General Joseph Aoun called on soldiers to be ever vigilant for the “good implementation” of the U.N....

Russian President Vladimir Putin hosted Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad to talk about the need to move from military operations to the search for a political solution to Syria’s conflict, the Kremlin said on Tuesday. Russia is actively trying to build an international consensus around a...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Two infants on Monday have lost their lives due to a rainstorm hitting the opposition-held Idlib province amid lack of basic needs, medics told Zaman al-Wasl. Wael Tuaima, 25-day-old, and Yahya al-Hassoun 8-day-old, have lost their lives died as a result of the severe...

Chancellor Angela Merkel said she would prefer a new election to ruling with a minority after talks on forming a three-way coalition failed overnight, but Germany’s president told parties they owed it to voters to try to form a government. The major obstacle to a three-way deal was...

President Donald Trump put North Korea back on a list of state sponsors of terrorism on Monday, a designation that allows the United States to impose more sanctions and risks inflaming tensions over Pyongyang’s nuclear weapons and missile programs. The Republican president, who has...

Over the last eight months, Turkey has rebuilt over 400 damaged schools in Syria's Aleppo region, enabling 152,000 children to continue with their educations. After Operation Euphrates Shield, in which Turkey backed the Syrian opposition against Daesh controlling Syrian towns, Turkey's...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- The Coordinator of Syrian opposition's Higher Negotiation Committee has resigned on Monday, such a move comes two days before Riyadh conference.  Riyad    Hijab, the head of Saudi-backed opposition group that also known as Riyadh platform, has...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- A family of six, including father, mother and four children, were killed on Monday in Madyara town as Syrian regime forces step up shelling on the besieged Eastern Ghouta suburbs near Damascus, topping the death toll to 80  in a week of heavy bombing.   ...

Millions of children in war-weary Syria continue to be deprived of their most basic rights, a refugee rights body said. "Children are the ones mostly affected by this war. Because they are perhaps the most needy and vulnerable beings on the earth", International Refugee Rights...

About 300 wives and children of foreign extremists captured in Mosul have been transferred from northern Iraq to Baghdad "for expulsion to their home countries," an official told AFP Monday. "This is the second wave of expulsions, and two or three more will follow," said Nureddin...