(Reuters) - In the first two months after a June Supreme Court ruling allowed partial implementation of President Donald Trump’s travel ban, visas issued on average each month to citizens of six countries targeted by the order were 18 percent lower compared to the month prior to the ban, a...

Iraqi forces Friday launched an assault on the northern town of Hawijah, one of the last bastions still held by Daesh (ISIS) in the country, its commander said. "A huge military operation has begun to liberate Hawijah and its surrounding areas," Lt. Gen. Abdel Amir Yarallah said in a...

 Islamic State leader Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi has exhorted followers across the world to wage attacks against the West and to keep fighting in Iraq, Syria and elsewhere. The message released on Thursday was his first purported audio communication in almost a year during which his...

(Eqtsad)- Following the battles regime forces and Iranian militias supported by Russian air force fought against ISIS in the eastern Homs countryside, the regime began to reap outcomes of those battles and the price of lives that were lost during the battles in its ranks through the...

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said an Islamic State attack on Thursday cut off the main road between Deir Ezzor city and Palmyra, but a Syrian military source denied this. The Observatory, a Britain-based war monitor, said Islamic State seized the town of al-Shoula on the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian Kurdish Democratic Union Party  has elected two new co-chairs on Thursday replacing powerful Salih Muslim and Aysa Abdulla, Kurdish media outlets said. The ongoing 7th Ordinary Congress of PYD has been held in northern city of Rimelan has elected Shahuz...

 A French court on Thursday found a mother-of-three guilty of financing terrorism after she sent money abroad to her radicalised son who later traveled to fight in Syria, sentencing her to two years in jail. In a case which could set precedent in France, Nathalie Haddadi, 42, a...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces on Thursday have pushed further advances in eastern Deir Ezzor against the Islamic State as new clashes took place in southern Hasaka area. The SDF seized control of the town of Sour and villages of Saad and Ber al-Nafakh...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 92 regime army troops and allied militants have been killed in clashes with the Islamic State in Deir Ezzor, Homs and Hama province in the last 48 hours, activists and the group's Amaq news agency said. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said an...

Turkey said on Thursday it had stopped training peshmerga forces in northern Iraq in response to a Kurdish independence vote there, whose backers had thrown themselves “into the fire”. The Kurdish peshmerga have been at the forefront of the campaign against Islamic State and been...

Russian and Syrian jets killed at least 150 civilians and injured dozens in over a week of heavy bombing that shattered a six-month halt in intensive aerial raids in opposition-held northwestern parts of Syria, opposition rescue workers said on Wednesday. The renewed bombing campaign...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 44 regime army troops and allied militants have been killed in clashes with the Islamic State in Homs and Hama province in the last 48 hours, activists said. The regime forces backed by allied militias seek to uproot ISIS from Uqairbat village, last ISIS...

Japan’s Toshiba Corp said on Thursday it had signed an $18 billion deal to sell its chip unit to a consortium led by Bain Capital LP, overcoming a key - albeit not its last - hurdle as it scrambles for funds to stave off a potential delisting. The sale of the unit - the world’s second...

Zaman Al Wasl TV meets Majed , 12-year-old, who dropped out school so early to join his father in selling Gasoline in Hola region of central Homs province.  Majed's father started teaching his son in their modest shop since he can't go back to his school that turned to rubble due...

President Donald Trump proposed on Wednesday the biggest U.S. tax overhaul in three decades, calling for tax cuts for most Americans, but prompting criticism that the plan favors business and the rich and could add trillions of dollars to the deficit. The proposal drew a swift,...

The Iraqi Kurdish vote for independence could bolster Syria’s own Kurds if it pushes the Syrian government to negotiate over autonomy, Syrian Kurdish leaders said on Wednesday. Top Kurdish politician Ilham Ahmed told Reuters that officials from Syria’s Kurdish-led regions had already...

A Russian general killed in Syria had been seconded to the Syrian government as a military commander, Russia’s military chief of staff said on Wednesday. Moscow has long been a staunch ally of Syria, but the role of the deceased general reveals the extent to which Russia has become an...

(Reuters) - Ford Motor Co (F.N) said on Wednesday it will collaborate with Lyft to deploy Ford self-driving vehicles on the ride-services company’s network in large numbers by 2021. Ford and Lyft teams will begin working together to design software to allow Ford vehicles to communicate...

(Reuters) - Global sales of industrial robots rose by 16 percent in 2016, driven by the electronics industry, and are expected to rise faster in 2017, the International Federation of Robotics (IFR) said on Wednesday. The world market was worth $13.1 billion, an increase of 18 percent,...

(Reuters) - Interpol voted on Wednesday to admit the State of Palestine as a member over Israeli objections at the international police organization’s general assembly in Beijing. The decision came despite Israeli efforts to delay a vote and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a...