An Islamic State evacuation convoy trying to reach IS territory in east Syria has split in two, with some buses remaining in the open desert after others turned back into government-held areas, a U.S.-led coalition fighting the group said on Sunday. The Syrian government and Lebanon’s...
Moscow denounced the American decision to close three Russian diplomatic facilities in the United States as a “blatantly hostile act” that violated international law and demanded Washington reverse the order on Sunday. The United States has ordered the closure of the Russian consulate...
(Zaman Al Wasl)- Fierce clashes between ISIS and Kurdish-led forces still underway in the last neighborhood of Raqqa's Old City as the U.S.-led airstrikes keep pounding the trapped civilians, local monitoring group said on Sunday. Raqqa Is Being Slaughtered Silently...
(Zaman Al Wasl) Al-Nujba'a militia, which is fighting alongside Bashar al-Assad, said it held Eid prayers at its headquarters, the Second Brigade Camp in Damascus. The militia led by Akram al-Kaabi, in his capacity as the Secretary-General, said the prayer was led by “Mr Abbas...
(VOA)- As convoys of the Lebanese army on Wednesday returned from a recent operation against Islamic State militants in the border region with Syria, cheering civilians showered them with rose petals and danced around them with Lebanese flags. It was a moment for Lebanon to celebrate...
(Zaman Al Wasl) This year's Eid al-Adha holiday is a heavy burden for the displaced people in the eastern region of Qalamoun in Damascus’ countryside. The holiday brings with it bitter memories which the war is trying to erase. However, the warm welcome of the people in the region gave the...
The Valley of Peace cemetery in the Shiite holy city of Najaf is filled with mourners paying tribute to "martyrs" who have fallen in battles to expel the Islamic State group from Iraq's cities. In keeping with religious tradition, Kazem al-Aibi has already visited the tombs of relatives...
Iran's new defence minister said Saturday the priority was to boost the country's missile programme and export weapons to shore up neighbouring allies. "In combat fields, especially in missiles, we have a specific plan to boost Iran's missile power," said General Amir Hatami, who was...
(Zaman Al Wasl)- An ISIS suicide bombing attacks killed at least 23 Syrian and Russian troops east of Hama province, pushing back the offensive of regime and its allies, residents told Zaman al-Wasl on Sunday. The attack took place in the ISIS-held Auqairabattown, a...
Affable, handsome George Clooney was all charm at the Venice Film Festival on Saturday, but don't be fooled. The actor says his latest directorial effort, "Suburbicon," is an angry movie for an angry country — his own. It's a twisted tale of darkness at the heart of the American dream....
Suicide bombers struck a state-run power station north of Baghdad early on Saturday, killing seven people and forcing the facility to shut down in an attack claimed by Islamic State, police and army sources said. At least three gunmen wearing explosive vests attacked the power station...
Even at Islam’s holiest sites and during the most sacred time of year for Muslims, some people cannot stop talking about Donald Trump. Among one group of American, Canadian and British pilgrims in Mecca this week for the annual haj, the U.S. president and policies they say target...
More than a dozen Syrian rebel factions have thrown their weight behind a proposed plan to create a single "national army" to unify the fractured opposition movement. The idea was proposed earlier this week by the opposition's interim government in exile and by the Syrian Islamic...
Against all odds, Syria’s footballers have overcome more than six years of civil war and internal political rifts to raise hopes of qualifying for their first ever World Cup. Forced to play their home games away due to security concerns, Ayman Hakeem’s Syria have embarrassed a...
Lebanon's Hezbollah movement on Saturday accused US-led forces of stranding a convoy of Islamic State fighters and civilians headed for Syria's Deir Ezzor province under an evacuation deal. The convoy carrying hundreds of IS fighters as well as civilians was meant to travel from...
Seven Kenyan teenage schoolgirls died and 10 more were hospitalized after a fire engulfed their boarding school dormitory in Nairobi early on Saturday morning, a government official said. The cause of the fire was not known, and the government ordered Moi Girls School closed for two...
More than 2,600 houses have been burned down in Rohingya-majority areas of Myanmar’s northwest in the last week, the government said on Saturday, in one of the deadliest bouts of violence involving the Muslim minority in decades. About 58,600 Rohingya have fled into...
The U.S.-led coalition fighting Islamic State militants said on Friday it had confirmed another 61 likely civilian deaths caused by its strikes in Iraq and Syria, raising to 685 the number of civilians it has acknowledged killing since the conflict began. The coalition said in a...
(Eqtsad)- The General Medical Board in the south of the capital Damascus warned that the only central hospital in the region Shahid al-Mihrab Hospital has no capacity to continue work in the absence of funds from medical organizations supporting the board which provide free medical services...
President Donald Trump will announce his decision on Tuesday on whether to rescind the Obama-era policy protecting immigrants who came to the United States illegally as children, the White House said on Friday. “We’re actually going to make that announcement on Tuesday of next week,”...
