For a people struggling to establish their own state, traditional food is an important part of the national heritage, and for Palestinians in the West Bank that goes well beyond the standard hummus. In Hebron, a biblical town in the Israeli-occupied Palestine, Eyad Abu Seena runs his...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The U.S.-led coalition have carried out two airdrops of forces in the eastern countryside of Deir al-Zour province within the last 36 hours, tracking families of ISIS senior commanders, a monitor group and local activists said. The airdrops took place in the ISIS-held...

A suicide bomber blew himself up inside a Shiite mosque in Kabul Friday in what officials said was an ongoing attack, the latest violence to strike the Afghan capital. Kabul police spokesman Abdul Basir Mujahid told AFP a suicide bomber "detonated himself inside the mosque", adding that...

U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces will launch an offensive to oust Daesh (ISIS) from Deir al-Zor province "very, very soon", an official from the alliance told Reuters Friday. Ahmed Abu Khawla, head of the Deir al-Zor military council which fights under the SDF, said the assault might...

Any additional support given by the United States to Syrian Kurdish YPG fighters will cause problems for Turkey, Prime Minister Binali Yildirim was quoted as saying on Friday. Speaking to reporters on his return flight from Vietnam, Yildirim also said Turkey was working in cooperation with...

A South Korean court sentenced the billionaire chief of Samsung to five years in prison for bribery and other crimes in a stunning downfall for the heir to South Korea's biggest family fortune and a global consumer electronics empire. The Seoul Central District Court said Friday that Lee...

   (Zaman Al Wasl)- The autonomous Kurdish administration halted the construction works in three schools sponsored by the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) in northeastern Syria over demands to implement the Kurdish curriculum in these schools, local reporter said.  ...

( The Guardian )- The family of a former British soldier arrested in Turkey after fighting against Isis in Syria have begged Theresa May for help after his lawyer revealed he has been charged with “being a member of a terrorist organisation”. Joe Robinson, 24, from Accrington, Lancashire, is...

U.S. President Donald Trump has told his Egyptian counterpart Abdel Fattah al-Sisi that he wants to strengthen ties with Cairo, Sisi's office said Friday, days after it emerged Washington had cut some aid to Egypt. Egypt had protested on Wednesday a U.S. decision to withhold some military...

 U.S Navy and Marine Corps divers have recovered and identified a second body in the search for ten sailors missing after a collision between a guided-missile destroyer and merchant vessel near Singapore earlier this week, the U.S. Navy said on Friday. The USS John S. McCain collided...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Russia has built a base for its S-400 long-range air defense missile systems in Hama province, well-informed sources said, 15 km (10 miles) far from the newly-discovered Iranian missile facilities in the most loyal area to Bashar al-Assad in Syria. The key...

At least 12 people died in southern Russia early on Friday after a bus carrying construction workers veered off a road and plunged into the Black Sea, TASS news agency reported. "The bus was carrying 35 people ... 12 of them died. Twenty were rescued. Three people are missing, the search for...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is engulfed in a string of scandals and faces a growing grassroots protest movement demanding his indictment and removal from office. Weekly anti-corruption vigils in front of the home of Israel's attorney general have gone from a trickle to drawing...

At least 21 insurgents and 11 members of security forces were killed in Myanmar's Rakhine state Friday when militants staged a major coordinated attack on 24 police posts and an army base, the military said. The fighting - still going on in some areas - marked a major escalation in a...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Islamic State denied Syrian regime reports of advances east of Raqqa city on Thursday, saying it has recaptured 4 villages and killed about 100 soldiers and allied militants, 58 of them in suicide bombing attack.   The radical group's news feeds said ISIS fighters...

Hezbollah has captured much of an Islamic State pocket on Syria’s side of the border with Lebanon in a joint offensive with the Syrian army, its leader said on Thursday. In parallel with the fighting, talks on a truce have begun with Islamic State but a military victory is more likely,...

 A group of Egyptian students have built a machine they say can produce fuel from worn-out vehicle tyres, after big rises in energy prices as part of recent economic reforms. The device heats the tyres until they reach evaporation point. The vapour then enters a condenser. The...

As Iraqi forces advance through Tal Afar, their Shiite religious songs mix with the crackle of gunfire by Islamic State group jihadists and the boom of air strikes. The battle to oust the jihadists from one of their last strongholds in Iraq is proceeding more quickly than expected. On a...

By Abdullah Ghadawi ( Atlantic Council )- The base of the Islamic State’s (ISIS, ISIL, Daesh) power is in Raqqa and Mosul and is connected with each side deploying fighters across the border in mass. But while the United States and the Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) took back Mosul, the...

 Egypt's Antiquities Ministry says that archaeologists have uncovered five tombs from the Roman era, dating back to more than 2,000 years. Thursday's statement says the discovery was made in a western desert area known as Beir al-Shagala near the Dakhla oasis, southwest of Cairo....