TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Libyan authorities are processing a request from Britain to extradite the brother of the bomber who killed 22 people in Manchester in May, but no decision has been taken yet, a government spokesman said on Thursday. The armed group holding the brother said that if...
Oscar-winning actor Dustin Hoffman responded Wednesday to an allegation of sexual harassment by a teenage intern on a film set over 30 years ago. “I have the utmost respect for women and feel terrible that anything I might have done could have put her in an uncomfortable situation. I am...
Syria's army and allied fighters have captured the city of Deir al-Zor from Daesh (ISIS) in a Russian-backed operation, a monitor said on Thursday. There was no immediate confirmation from official sources, though state media earlier reported army advances in the city in the country's...
(Zaman Al Wasl)- The Syrian General Conference, group of former Syrian army officers and local activists, on Thursday have formed 'National Salvation Government' to operate in opposition-held areas north of the war-torn country. The domestic group has appointed Mohamed...
By Ethar Abdulhaq (Zaman Al Wasl)- The US Central Intelligence Agency published on Wednesday Abbottabad documents found on the computer seized in the May 2, 2011, U.S. raid on the Al-Qaeda founder’s hideout in Abbottabad, Pakistan, such material reveal contacts between al-Qaeda and the...
Iraqi forces captured Thursday the Akkas gas field from Daesh (ISIS), Oil Minister Jabar al-Luaibi told reporters in Baghdad. Iraqi forces launched last month an offensive to oust the militant group from the last area still under its control in Iraq, on the border with Syria, where the...
Hundreds of Palestinians took to the streets of Ramallah Thursday to protest on the 100th anniversary of Britain's Balfour Declaration, which helped lead to Israel's creation and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas used the occasion to denounce the...
A leading Syrian opposition group is calling on the United Nations to retake charge of the peace process for war-torn Syria, after Russia announced it would host parallel talks later this month. The Higher Negotiation Committee says Russia is undermining the U.N. and imposing its own...
(Zaman Al Wasl)- An official document obtained by Zaman al-Wasl reveals that the Syrian regime had transferred most of chemical weapons stockpiles in 2013 to secret depots held by Maher al-Assad, de-facto military commander of Syria after the deadly Sarin gas attack on Eastern Ghouta...
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - A senior Israeli minister on Thursday declined to comment on reports that Israeli aircraft had struck a target in Syria the night before but repeated a threat to hit arms shipments to Lebanese Hezbollah guerrillas. The air strike targeted a factory south of the...
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq’s Kurdistan region said on Thursday it has offered a joint Kurdish-Iraqi deployment at a strategic crossing into Turkey, with the participation of the U.S.-led coalition that was helping fight Islamic State. The offer was disclosed hours after Iraqi armed...
(Zaman Al Wasl)- A 36-truck convoy on Wednesday delivered food, health, nutrition, education items and children's clothes for the besieged people in the town of Talbiseh in central Homs province, local activists said. The aid was delivred by staff from the Syrian Arab Red...
(Reuters) - Iraqi forces threatened on Wednesday to resume operations to capture northern Kurdish-held territory after accusing authorities there of delaying handing over control of Iraq’s borders with Turkey, Iran and Syria. Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi on Friday declared a pause in...
A computer recovered in the 2011 U.S. special forces operation that killed Osama bin Laden contained a video collection that included kids’ cartoons, several Hollywood movies and three documentaries about himself. The list of the videos was included in the release Wednesday by the U.S. Central...
An Israeli air strike targeted a factory south of the Syrian city of Homs on Wednesday and the Syrian army responded by firing a surface-to-air missile at the aircraft, a commander in a military alliance fighting in support of Damascus said. The commander told Reuters the airstrike had...
(Zaman Al Wasl)- Al-Hamza rebel group on Wednesday has handed over the Military College to the opposition's interim government in northern Aleppo province. Head of the Political Bureau of Al-Hamzah Division, Mohamed al-Abdullah said the move was an urgent necessity in order to put it in...
An Egyptian lawyer last week called for the rape and sexual assault of women in revealing clothes, adding that it was a "national duty" to do so. Nabih al-Wahsh's comments came during a panel discussion over a draft law on tackling prostitution that was broadcast on ...
President Donald Trump on Wednesday urged tougher immigration measures based on merit, following the deadly truck attack in New York City. "We will stop this craziness," he said. Trump said on Twitter that the driver in Tuesday's attack "came into our country through what is called the...
NIAMEY (Reuters) - Niger has asked the United States to start using armed drones against jihadist groups operating on the Mali border, raising the stakes in a counter-insurgency campaign jolted by a deadly ambush of allied U.S.-Nigerien forces. On Oct. 4, Islamist militants with sniper...
ATHENS (Reuters) - A group of mainly Syrian women and children who have been stranded in Greece pitched tents opposite parliament in Athens on Wednesday in a protest against delays in reuniting with relatives in Germany. Some of the refugees, who say they have been in Greece for over a...
