The U.S.-led coalition battling Daesh (ISIS) said Wednesday that it won't accept a negotiated withdrawal for hundreds of Daesh militants holed up in the Syrian city of Raqqa, once the extremists' de facto capital. The remarks by coalition spokesman, Col. Ryan Dillon, came as coalition...

A Spanish diplomat has been proposed to head the world's chemical weapons watchdog at a critical time for the organisation's disarmament work in Syria, diplomats said Wednesday. A vote on the appointment of Fernando Arias, 65, is expected to be taken by the 41-member executive council...

Three suicide bombers blew themselves up near the main police headquarters building in Syria's capital Damascus Wednesday, killing at least two people, the interior ministry said. The attack is the second time in a month that suicide attackers have targeted the capital, which has often...

The arrangement helped the Syrian government to feed areas still under its control after Islamic State took over the northeastern wheat-growing region during the six-year-old civil war, they said. Traders working for businessman and lawmaker Hossam al-Katerji bought wheat from farmers...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia accused the United States on Wednesday of allowing Islamic State to operate “under its nose” in Syria, saying Washington was letting the militant group move about freely in an area abutting a U.S. military base. The allegations, made by Russia’s Defense...

(Reuters) - The United States on Tuesday offered multimillion-dollar rewards for two officials of the Iran-backed Lebanese group Hezbollah as the Trump administration prepared to unveil a strategy to counter Tehran’s growing regional influence. Washington will pay up to $7 million for...

LONDON (Reuters) - Prime Minister Theresa May has reaffirmed Britain’s commitment to a 2015 Iran nuclear deal in a telephone conversation with U.S. President Donald Trump ahead of a key U.S. decision on whether Tehran has stuck to the terms of the pact. Trump has cast doubt on the...

LONDON (Reuters) - A tough line from President Donald Trump has been met by a show of unity from both sides of Iran’s political divide, uniting hardliners who cast the United States as an implacable enemy with pragmatists who seek rapprochement with the West. Iran, which has kept up a...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 26 people killed on Tuesday in the US-led coalition airstrikes on Raqqa city as fall of the de facto capital of the Islamic State seemed to be imminent, local monitoring groups said. Raqqa Is Being Slaughtered Silently reported that 16 civilians mostly women...

 Moscow accused the US on Tuesday of reducing air strikes against the Islamic State group in Iraq to let jihadists into Syria and fight the Russian-backed Syrian army, claims the Pentagon denied. Russian military spokesman Igor Konashenkov said the Syrian regime was attempting to...

LONDON (Reuters) - Iran told the United States on Tuesday that it will keep “all options on table” if President Donald Trump designates its elite Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) as a terrorist organization. It came hours after the government said Washington itself would be aiding terrorism...

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Several hundred suspected Islamic State fighters surrendered last week to Kurdish authorities after the militant group lost its last stronghold in northern Iraq, a security official said on Tuesday. The suspects were part of a group of men who fled toward...

The United States decision to suspend visa services in Turkey has punished citizens of both countries, Turkey’s prime minister said on Tuesday, accusing Washington of taking an emotional and inappropriate step against an ally. Binali Yildirim called on the United States to move quickly...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian rebels have handed over Bab al-Salama border crossing with Turkey to the opposition’s Interim Government on Tuesday, local activists said. The strategic crossing near Azaz town in northern Aleppo province will be under the full control of the Coalition's...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- About 20 thousands people have been trapped by the Islamic State in the newly-captured town of Qaryatayn east of Homs, activists said. Media activist Abdullah al-Kareem said ISIS is using civilains as human shields refusing to let them leave to the eastern countryside...

 A Sukhoi military jet crashed while trying to take off from Russia's Hmeimim base in Syria on Tuesday, killing the crew, Russian news agencies quoted a military spokesman as saying. "The Su-24 plane rolled off the runway and broke up while accelerating for takeoff... The plane's...

(Reuters) - A student shot a police officer to death at Texas Tech University in Lubbock on Monday, and the campus was placed on lockdown before the suspect was arrested, officials said. Texas Tech police went to check on the welfare of the student earlier on Monday and, after...

Kenya (Reuters) - Several students have been injured in Kenya after gunmen opened fire at the Technical University of Mombasa’s campus in coastal Kwale county. A witness who did not want to be named told Reuters she and several other students had fled their bus when gunmen opened fire...

(Syria Stories)- It was no easy matter for Abeer, 31, to pursue her ambition to wear the uniform of a Syrian civil defence worker. Not only did she have to learn to handle the stress of dealing with medical trauma, but she also had to defy conservative traditions that deemed it...

TUNIS (Reuters) - U.N. agencies said on Monday they were trying to provide urgent help to large numbers of migrants who had been held in the smuggling hub of Sabratha as rival factions battled for control of the city. At least 4,000 migrants, including pregnant women, newborn babies and...