Thousands of Turkish volunteers are ready to fight in Kirkuk and other Iraqi cities to defend the country’s Turkmen population, the head of Turkey’s nationalist opposition said on Wednesday. Devlet Bahceli said the minority Turkmen, who have close ethnic ties to Turkey, would not be...
Thousands of people took to the streets of Tehran on Wednesday to bury a soldier whose beheading by Islamic State has come to symbolize the righteousness of Iran’s military involvement in Syria. In what has become an iconic image on Iranian media, 25-year-old Revolutionary Guard Mohsen...
A top ranking delegation from Iraq's armed forces headed to neighbouring Iran Wednesday "to coordinate military efforts," according to a statement from the Iraqi military. The statement did not give any details about the aim of the visit, believed to be part of retaliatory measures...
(Zaman Al Wasl)- A footage for brutal execution of five civilians, including two blind men, from the Deir Ez-zor by the regime soldiers has sparked wave of resentment and anger on social media. Activist Salama al-Hussein from Furat Post Network confirmed that two young...
(Reuters) - Islamic State claimed responsibility for several explosions that targeted the area in and around Kabul airport on Wednesday hours after U.S. Defense Secretary James Mattis arrived in the Afghan capital, the group’s AMAQ news agency said. The news agency said “infiltrators”...
Islamic State militants holed up west of Baghdad launched their biggest attack on Iraqi troops in months on Wednesday, security sources said, killing at least seven soldiers before being forced to retreat. The fighting, near the city of Ramadi in Anbar province, continued for...
(Zaman Al Wasl)- Well-informed sources said rebel groups operating in southern Daraa province have agreed to open strategic Nasib border crossing with Jordan, following a deal with Russians includes a prisoner swap. Representatives of rebel factions said before that the crossing will...
Hassan Youssef was 10 years old when a local Syrian composer discovered his talent: a deep powerful voice that was particularly resonant for traditional songs. It wasn’t long, however, before Syria’s grinding civil war nearly shattered Youssef’s hope of polishing his natural gift. He and his...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A vote by Iraq’s minority Kurds for independence is a blow to the United States, which has spent years, billions of dollars and the lives of thousands of troops trying to hold Iraq together, former U.S. officials and other policy experts said. A diplomatic drive...
(Zaman Al Wasl)- With the advance of the U.S. Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) militias backed by the International Coalition against ISIS in the area of al-Sour in the northern suburb of Deir Ez-zor and adjacent to the town of Markada south of Hasaka, the number of people fleeing the...
(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian rebels shot down a Russian helicopter with a TOW missile late on Tuesday in Hama province, as regime forces stepped up its aerial campaign on northwestern Syria. Rebel group Jaish al-Azza, part of the Free Syrian Army alliance, said in a statement...
RIYADH (Reuters) - Saudi King Salman on Tuesday ordered that women be allowed to drive cars, state media said, ending the conservative Islamic kingdom’s status as the only country where that is forbidden. The royal decree ordered the formation of a ministerial body to give advice within...
(Zaman Al Wasl)- 4 Rebel fighters, including commander, were killed when two explosive devices detonated near their car in souther n Daraa province, local activists said. The Commander of al-Ababeel A rmy and three fellow fighters lot their lives in...
TORONTO (Reuters) - Chelsea Manning was turned back at the Canadian-U.S. border because she was convicted of espionage for passing information to Wikileaks, the former U.S. intelligence analyst said on Monday. Manning told Reuters via direct message on Twitter that she drove up to the...
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - A passenger train derailed in eastern Sweden after colliding with an armored vehicle during a major military exercise in the area, leaving at least four people injured, authorities said on Tuesday. The armored vehicle collided with a train near the small town of...
The Russian Defense Ministry on Tuesday denied allegations that its air strikes had killed civilians in Syria's Idlib province, saying that in recent days it had only bombed Islamist militant fighters in the area. Moscow said it was responding to assertions from the Britain-based Syrian...
The Syrian government is open to negotiations with Kurds over their demand for autonomy within Syria's borders, state news agency SANA cited foreign minister as saying on Tuesday. Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Moualem said it will strike a conciliatory tone as military tensions...
YANGON (Reuters) - Myanmar is committing crimes against humanity in its campaign against Muslim insurgents in Rakhine state, Human Rights Watch said on Tuesday, and it called for the U.N. Security Council to impose sanctions and an arms embargo. A government spokesman was not...
Oil prices took a breather on Tuesday after Brent crude earlier rose to a 26-month high, supported by Turkey’s threat to cut crude flows from Iraq’s Kurdistan region to the outside world. Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan threatened on Monday to cut off the pipeline that carries oil...
(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 42 people have been killed in Russian and Syrian airstrikes on northern Idlib province since Sunday as the regime army extends its ground and aerial attacks on rebel-held areas that included in the de-escalation zone agreement, the Civil Defense rescuing group...
