Syrian regime troops seized a suburb of the eastern city of Deir al-Zor on Sunday, tightening the noose around Islamic State, a Syrian military source said. The army pushed into the city this month with the help of Russian air power and Iran-backed militias, breaking an Islamic State...

 A second man has been arrested over Friday’s bombing of a London commuter train that injured 30 people and Britain remained on its highest level of alert on Sunday with soldiers helping provide security. The 21-year-old man was detained under Britain’s Terrorism Act in the west...

 President Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah Movement Sunday welcomed a pledge by its Hamas Movement rivals to accept key conditions for ending a decade-old Palestinian political and territorial split, but said it wants to see vows implemented before making the next move. Repeated attempts at...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Fierce clashes still underway between regime troops and the Islamic State east of Homs province, left 8 officers killed, local reporter said.   Backed by Russia's airstrikes, the regime forces seek to deter ISIS from gas-rich area, such a hope still not fulfilled as...

 Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh could die due to a lack of food, shelter and water available for the huge numbers of them fleeing violence in Myanmar, an aid agency warned on Sunday. Nearly 410,000 members of the Rohingya Muslim minority fled from western Rakhine state to...

Pakistanis began casting votes on Sunday for the parliamentary seat vacated by ousted Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, in a by-election seen as a test of support for the Sharif dynasty ahead of the 2018 general election. Sharif’s ruling Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) party hopes a...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The delegation of the Syrian resistance factions presented to Astana 6 conference several files related to the cooperation of Bashar al-Assad regime with ISIS through its security services and facilitating some of the operations carried out by the organization in the central...

 Hundreds of Tunisians protested on Saturday in the streets of the capital against a widely contested new law that grants officials from the former regime involved in corruption amnesty from prosecution. Tunisia’s parliament on Wednesday approved a law protecting officials accused...

 Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said on Saturday that Kurdish plans to hold a referendum on independence was like “playing with fire”, according to a local media website. Abadi’s comment came after the parliament of the autonomous Kurdish region in northern Iraq approved on...

The former al Qaeda branch in Syria has pledged to keep fighting government forces and their Russian and Iranian allies, and denounced ceasefire talks in Kazakhstan. Russia, Iran and Turkey agreed on Friday to deploy observers on the edge of a “de-escalation” zone in Syria’s Idlib...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Russia`s airstrikes on Saturday have killed 14 civilians in Deir Ezzor province as  regime army, Kurdish and Iraqi forces tighten noose on ISIS in eastern Syria, local activists said.    Ahmed Ramdan, from Furat Post, localmonitorng group based in Deir...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian refugee camps in Arsal in Lebanon started school year Saturday for the three school levels: primary, intermediate and secondary school. Administrative clerk in Qaryat Hayat School Ibrahim al-Sheikh mentioned that the number of Syrian students enrolled in the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)-  Mohammad  Ali, t he 36-year-old Syrian refugee has decided to sell one of his kidneys to pay his debts due to lack of financial resources imposed by his new living conditions in his tent in the Western Bekaa of Lebanon. His decision seemed a hopeless...

U.S.-backed militias said they came under attack on Saturday from Russian jets and Syrian government forces in Syria’s Deir al-Zor border province, a focus of an increasingly complex conflict. The strikes wounded six fighters from the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), according to the...

British police arrested an 18-year-old man in the southern port of Dover on Saturday in a “significant” development in the hunt for the people behind a London commuter train bombing that injured 30 people a day earlier. Prime Minister Theresa May put Britain on the highest security...

Iraqi armed forces said on Saturday they had started an offensive to dislodge Islamic State from a border area holding some of the militants’ last towns in the country. The offensive in the Akashat region, which has natural gas reserves and borders Syria, is meant to pave the way for...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 29 regime troops from Tartus province have been killed in two weeks by the Islamic State in eastern Syria, pro-regime news feeds said. Since May, the regime forces have been battling ISIS at the gates of Deir Ezzor city and the Syrian Badia, making rapid...

U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision to block a Chinese-backed firm from buying a U.S.-based chipmaker this week is detrimental to America’s growth and the global economy, China’s state news agency Xinhua said in a commentary on Saturday. Canyon Bridge Capital Partners’ planned $1.3...

North Korea said on Saturday it aims to reach an “equilibrium” of military force with the United States, which earlier signaled its patience for diplomacy is wearing thin after Pyongyang fired a missile over Japan for the second time in under a month. “Our final goal is to establish the...

First signs of open scepticism appeared on Saturday over a European Union plan to raise the tax bill of digital multinationals, as some finance ministers from smaller EU states raised concerns about the economic impact. France is pushing for a new way of taxing online giants on the...