German Chancellor Angela Merkel lobbied party members Saturday to stand behind efforts to build a new coalition with the Free Democratic Party and Greens, saying it's the best suited to govern the country. Speaking in Dresden to her party's youth wing, Merkel said she will hold talks...

(UNHCR)- Nujeen Mustafa conquered more than the usual challenges when she fled the Syrian war two years ago. Born with cerebral palsy, the teenager became famous for making the hazardous journey to Europe in her wheelchair. Her defiance and resilience, recently documented in a memoir, have...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Seven people on Saturday have been killed in the town of Khan Sheikhoun as regime warplanes step up heavy bombing on the northern Idlib and southern Hama areas, local activists said. The vacuum missile attack killed 3 men, 3 women and a child gril.   Syrian...

The United States Embassy in Saudi Arabia warned U.S. citizens to exercise caution in the area around the Peace Palace in Jeddah Saturday after reports on social media of an attack there. There were several unconfirmed reports that security forces had foiled an attack near the king's...

Some 120 Islamic State militants and 60 foreign fighters were killed in a series of Russian air strikes in Syria over the past 24 hours, the defense ministry in Moscow said on Saturday. "A command post of the terrorists and up to 80 (Daesh) terrorists including nine natives of the...

(Reuters) - Danish police said on Saturday divers had found the head and the legs of Swedish journalist Kim Wall, who died in mysterious circumstances on an inventor’s homemade submarine. Peter Madsen has been charged with killing the Swedish journalist who disappeared after she went on...

(Reuters) - Malaysia has arrested four foreigners and four Malaysians for suspected involvement in terrorist activities linked to Abu Sayyaf, the Islamic State and Jemaah Islamiah, the police said on Saturday. Among the foreigners arrested were three Filipinos, one of whom is a...

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Saturday “a serious operation” was beginning in Syria’s Idlib and a Syrian rebel official said his group was preparing to enter the area with the backing of Turkish forces. Idlib and surrounding areas of northwest Syria are among the largest...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- A disabled Syrian child with sever illness has failed for the fifth day to leave the Kurdish-held Qana refugee camp in northern Hasaka province. Jassem Hawwash, 7-year-old, who needs urgent health care has been trapped in the camp as the powerful Kurdish PYD...

New revelations from a probe into ties between Daesh (ISIS) and Lafarge cast light on why the French cement giant was desperate to stay in Syria and the price it was prepared to pay. To ensure protection of its staff, Lafarge Cement Syria paid between $80,000 and $100,000 a month to various...

The ancient mud brick walls circling Raqqa’s deserted old city are almost the only structure still intact. Inside, shops and homes spill crumbling concrete onto either side of the narrow roads, block after block. Fighting between U.S.-backed militias and Daesh (ISIS) in the militant group’s...

An armed alliance involved in a three-week battle over the Libyan smuggling hub of Sabratha said it had taken control of the coastal city on Friday. A group called the Operations Room and its allies have been fighting the Anas al-Dabbashi brigade, a major facilitator of migrant...

The U.S. Commerce Department on Friday notched up proposed trade duties on Bombardier Inc CSeries jets to nearly 300 percent, affirming Boeing Co’s complaint that the Canadian company received illegal subsidies and dumped the planes at “absurdly low” prices. The decision underscored the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Islamic State has never depended on educated fighters or Shariah scholars when it comes to assigning mosque Imams and Khatibs, new documents revealed. Documents issued by the Diwan for Proselytization, Foundations (Awqaf) and Mosques in the northern countryside of Raqqa...

 The U.S. dollar and government debt yields jumped on Friday after strong gains in hourly wages unveiled in the U.S. government’s jobs report for September boosted the likelihood the Federal Reserve will raise interest rates by year’s end. U.S. employment fell in September for the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Powerful Hayat Tahrir al-Sham alliance on Friday have launched new major attack on regime forces in Hama province, two days after Damascus declared that the central province is free of the Islamic State. The attack took place in the pro-regime village of Abu Dali which...

(Eqtsad)- US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) have been using the Euphrates Dam near the town of Tabaqa as a bridge to transport hundreds of fuel tankers and livestock to the government-held areas, well-informed source said on Friday. Former director of the Euphrates Dam...

The Syrian regime army and its allies have advanced to within 10 km of Mayadin, a military media unit run by Hezbollah said Friday, bringing them close to a city seen as the current main base of Daesh (ISIS). They have won control of positions and heights parallel to the main road...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Seven people killed on Friday in regime airstrikes on the northern town of Khan Sheikhoun as regime forces backed by Russian step up aerial campaign on opposition-held Idlib province. The regime warplanes conducted 5 raids on a local marketplace in the town, leaving...

  (Zaman Al Wasl)- Islamic State fighters shot down a Russian helicopter on Thursday in the central province of Hama, sources said. The Ka-52 Alligator was shot down near the strategic town of Uqayribat while the ISIS fighters were withdrawing from their last stronghold in...