(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 11 rebel fighters were injured in an ISIS poison gas attack on their bases near Yarmouk camp in southern Damascus, local reporter said. The nature of the substance has not yet been confirmed as dozens of suffocation cases reported. Clashes erupted...

When the guns fell silent on the Kirkuk-Erbil road, just after noon on Friday, a fresh border had been scythed through the oil-rich soil – and a new line of influence carved across northern Iraq. Their gun barrels still hot, vanquished peshmerga forces began another withdrawal a few...

DUBAI (Reuters) - The deputy head of the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas vowed to keep close ties with Israel’s arch-enemy Iran and to maintain its weapons, Iranian media reported on Sunday, rejecting Israeli preconditions for any peace talks. Hamas, which is designated as a terrorist...

JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesia intends to send a diplomatic note to the U.S. secretary of state and summon Washington’s deputy ambassador in Jakarta to explain why the head of its military was denied entry to the United States, Indonesian officials said on Sunday. Armed Forces Commander...

GENEVA (Reuters) - Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe has been removed as a goodwill ambassador, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Sunday following an outrage among Western donors and rights groups at the appointment. WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus named...

(The Daily Mail)- Tragic photos of a  Syrian  infant suffering from severe malnutrition have shown the grave consequences of the battle against  ISIS  that has forced thousands from their homes. The child was treated by a nurse at a clinic in the rebel-controlled...

PARIS (Reuters) - Airbus’s (AIR.PA) coup in buying a $6 billion Canadian jetliner project for a dollar stunned investors and took the spotlight off a growing ethics row last week, but internal disarray has raised questions over how smoothly it can implement the deal. The European...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Tens of thousands of people across Japan were advised to evacuate, hundreds of flights were canceled and train services disrupted on election day on Sunday as a typhoon roared toward the coast, bringing heavy rain and strong winds. Typhoon Lan, classified as an intense...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia accused the U.S.-led coalition in Syria on Sunday of wiping the city of Raqqa “off the face of the earth” with carpet bombing in the same way the United States and Britain had bombed Germany’s Dresden in 1945. The Russian Defence Ministry, which has itself...

Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi arrived in Riyadh Saturday in a visit aimed at upgrading strategic ties, amid warming relations between the Arab neighbors. The tour coincides with Saudi Energy Minister Khaled al-Faleh's high profile visit to Baghdad where he called for the strengthening...

U.S.-backed militias said they captured a major oil field in Deir al-Zor province on Sunday, pressing their offensive against Islamic State fighters in eastern Syria. The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) said they gained control of al-Omar oil field, one of Syria’s largest, on the eastern...

(Zaman Al Wasl) In tandem with the destruction of all aspects of life in Sunni-majority areas opposed to the Assad regime, the latter has been working on a plan, since 2011, to create an advanced industrial base in pro-regime areas amid aims to rely on this area as a substitute for the...

Five projectiles from Syria set off air raid sirens in Israeli towns on Saturday, prompting the Israeli military to say it would step up its response to stray fire from the civil war that has repeatedly spilled over the border. The projectiles crossed into the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights...

The forces fighting the remnants of Daesh (ISIS) in Syria have tacit instructions on dealing with the foreigners who joined the extremist group by the thousands: Kill them on the battlefield. As they made their last stand in the northern Syrian city of Raqqa, an estimated 300 extremists holed...

 U.S. President Donald Trump on Saturday hailed the defeat of Islamic State fighters in their self-proclaimed capital of Raqqa as “a critical breakthrough” in a worldwide campaign against the militants. On Friday, the Kurdish-dominated Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) formally announced...

Russian President Vladimir Putin and Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan discussed an upcoming meeting of the Astana process on the Syrian conflict in the Kazakh capital in late October, the Kremlin said on Saturday. During their phone conversation, Putin and Erdogan talked about joint efforts...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Seven people were arrested in the city of al-Tal, northeast the capital as regime froces waged new arrest campaign to hunt youth escaping conscription, local activists said Saturday. Murad Mardini, a communication officer in the Voice of the Capital network, said the...

The Syrian regime army and allied forces recaptured a town from Daesh (ISIS) on Saturday in central Homs province, where the extremists have lost vast territory in recent months, state media said. Syrian troops regained control of al-Qarytayn "after eliminating terrorist Daesh groups that had...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- US-backed Syrian militia has seized two villages from ISIS in the eastern province of Deir Ezzor, such a gain comes a day after declaring victory in Raqqa, once ISIS de-facto capital, local media unit said. The Syrian Democratic Forces took villages of Sfiera and Shaqra, ISIS...

( Middle Eats Eye )- The battle to take Raqqa, the Syrian capital of the Islamic state (IS) group, is almost over. But one of the main challenges that the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) face after IS is not only the huge destruction but also how to expand their model of women's...