(The Guardian)- In Syria, people disappear. Tens of thousands of Syrians are missing. We don’t know where they are being held or whether they are dead or alive. For the disappeared, the situation is life-threatening. For their families and friends, the uncertainty is agonising. President...

 Rescue workers in Mumbai searched for up to 20 people feared trapped in a six-storey building that collapsed early on Thursday, following two days of torrential rain in India’s commercial hub. Nine people had been confirmed dead, a municipal authority official said, while rescuers...

Somali government officials said on Thursday that 10 men and boys killed in a joint U.S.-Somali raid were civilians and that blood money will be paid to the families. “The 10 people were civilians. They were killed accidentally... The government and relatives will discuss about...

 Bangladeshi border guards on Thursday recovered the bodies of 20 Rohingya women and children whose boat capsized as they fled violence in Myanmar, an official said, amid rising pressure on Bangladesh to shelter thousands marooned at its borders. Around 18,500 Rohingya Muslims,...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Galilee Units, a Palestinian militia fighting with Assad forces in eastern Syria, has mourned 14 fighters on Thursday said they had been killed in clashes with the Islamic State last week.   Fadi Mallah, the commander of  Galilee Units  said his fighters...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Key rebel groups fighting regime forces in Syrian desert said regional and International powers are pressing on them to end fight and to launch attacks on ISIS instead. In a joint statement issued on Wednesday, Ahmed Abdo Martyrs Forces and Osoud...

(Hurriyet Daily News)-  The United States has refused to send F-16 warplane trainers to Turkey after Ankara requested them in order to fill the gap in the number of Turkish jet pilots.  The Turkish Armed Forces (TSK) has been trying to increase the number of its...

   (Zaman Al Wasl)- The ISIS-planted landmines killed at least 10 displaced people killed were Deir Ezzor province into the southern countryside of Hasaka, local activists said on Wednesday.   Activist Mohamed al-Khedher said 30 more people were wounded in the landmines...

The U.S.-led coalition said Wednesday it struck a roadway being used by an ISIS convoy fleeing to territory it controls. ISIS fighters had been allowed safe passage under a controversial agreement with the Lebanese Hezbollah and the Syrian regime following their military defeat along...

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Wednesday announced that $4 million would be dispersed to help UN agencies in the Gaza Strip deal with the enclave’s chronic electricity crisis.  Speaking at a school in Gaza City on the final day of his first Israel-Palestine tour, Guterres...

 Israel on Wednesday backtracked from a decision to revoke the accreditation of an Al Jazeera journalist, saying he explained that comments he made last year did not amount to support for Palestinian violence. Elias Karram, an Arab citizen of Israel, had told a Turkish-based TV...

Hundreds of additional troops were sent into al-’Ayadiya on Wednesday, as Iraqi forces came under increasing pressure to clear Islamic State fighters from their final position in the group’s former stronghold of Tal Afar, military officials said. Iraqi forces have been facing an...

(Eqtsad)- The 14th Eid comes to people in the capital Damascus since the outbreak of the Syrian revolution in 2011. What is the situation of a simple Syrian citizen with limited income this holiday? The purchase of new clothes is one of the means of expressing the joy of Eid, which is...

  (Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 15  displaced people from Auqairabat town killed late on Tuesday in regime airstrikes on their shelter in the eastern countryside of Idlib, local activists said.   The strikes pounded Wadi al-Uthaib valley, a refuge  for hundreds of people...

  (Zaman Al Wasl)- Powerful YPG militia said on Wednesday Russian troops have been deployed in territory it controls in the northern countryside of Aleppo city.    The Kurdish People's Protection Units said in statement the Russian units will do a monitoring mission...

Human Rights Watch called Wednesday for an independent enquiry to probe the fate of thousands of people who have disappeared in Syria's war and to identify mass graves. The Syrian war began in March 2011 when waves of peaceful demonstrations were repressed by the security forces,...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces on Wednesday mourned Adanan Abu al-Majed, hHead of Manbij Militay Council, saying he had been killed in clakshes with ISIS in Raqqa city. On the ground, fierce clashes are still underway in the neighborhoods of al-Morour,...

  (Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian opposition denied reconciliation reports with the Assad regime in southern Daraa province, saying no bargain on the revolution principles. Abu Mohamed Akhtaboot, General Coordinator of the National Front For Syria Liberation, refuted news by Russian...

The Canadian embassy in Berlin was evacuated due to a bomb threat, local newspaper B.Z. reported on Wednesday, adding that the police had been on site and were able to give the all-clear. Neither the police nor the embassy were immediately available to comment. B.Z. said a radio...

Jordan will open its main border crossing with Iraq on Wednesday for the first time since 2015, now that Iraqi forces have gained control of the main highway to Baghdad from Islamic State militants, both governments said. Iraqi troops pulled out of the Tureibil post, on the 180 km (110...