A 22-year-old man on the run after allegedly ploughing a van through crowds in Barcelona, killing at least 13, is "dangerous and could be armed," police in Catalonia said Monday. Police tweeted four pictures of Moroccan national Younes Abouyaaqoub wearing a striped top and with short, dark...

Egyptian security officials say a soldier and a policeman have been killed in separate attacks by suspected Islamic militants in the turbulent north of the Sinai Peninsula. The officials say that along with the killed soldier, five others were wounded when their armored vehicle struck a...

Turkey and Iran have discussed possible joint military action against Kurdish militant groups, after talks in Ankara last week between the chief of staff of Iran's armed forces and Turkish leaders, President Tayyip Erdogan said Monday. Speaking to reporters before departing on an official...

 Pope Francis is demanding countries to greatly improve their welcome to migrants and stop any collective expulsions, saying migrants' dignity and right to protection trumps national security concerns. Francis' politically pointed message Monday was for the Catholic Church's 2018 world...

Iraqi forces closed in Monday on Tal Afar on the second day of an offensive against the last major bastion of Daesh (ISIS) in the country's north, after seizing several villages around the city. The offensive launched at dawn Sunday comes only weeks after Iraqi forces seized second city...

The French presidency said Monday that Brigitte Macron, the wife of President Emmanuel Macron, would have a official role representing France but would not be paid or have her own budget or staff. A proposal by Macron during campaigning earlier this year to create a new First Lady status for...

South Sudan has grounded planes belonging to United Nations peacekeepers in a dispute over control of the airport in the capital Juba, a government spokesman said on Monday. The move threatens to further delay the deployment of the latest 4,000 peacekeepers to be assigned to the African...

Police in Germany's capital say nine people have been slightly injured when a smoke bomb went off at an event by the Kurdish community. Berlin police said Monday that nine participants had to be treated for breathing difficulties at the meeting Sunday night, which was about Iraq's...

The USS John S. McCain has docked at Singapore's naval base with "significant damage" to its hull after an early morning collision with an oil tanker as vessels from several nations searched Monday for 10 missing U.S. sailors. The collision east of Singapore between the guided-missile...

U.S. and South Korean troops kicked off their annual drills Monday that come after tensions rose over North Korea's two intercontinental ballistic missile tests last month. The Ulchi Freedom Guardian drills are largely computer-simulated war games held every summer and have drawn furious...

Russia's air force has destroyed a large column of Daesh (ISIS) fighters on their way to the Syrian city of Deir al-Zor, killing over 200 militants, Russian news agencies cited Russia's Defence Ministry as saying on Monday. Daesh is concentrating its forces around Deir al-Zor after being...

Four children from Sudan whose parents are believed to have been killed fighting for Islamic State in the Libyan city of Sirte last year were handed over to the Sudanese consul on Sunday for return to their country. Sirte was a stronghold for Islamic State from 2015-2016, when Libyan...

 German Chancellor Angela Merkel criticized Turkey's use of an Interpol arrest warrant to detain a German writer in Spain, telling an election town hall event on Sunday that this amounted to abuse of the international police agency. Dogan Akhanli was stopped in Spain on Saturday...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- A young Syrian police officer was beaten almost to death by pro-Assad militants in Homs province when he was with his patrol checking the cars entering to the central city, activists said on Sunday.   Militants of Nusoor Homs militia, or Homs Eagles, refused to be...

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas told Israeli opposition lawmakers Sunday that he had proposed rolling back his month-old suspension of security coordination with Israel, but that they did not respond to the overture, the delegation said. Abbas suspended ties on July 21, demanding that...

Trade negotiators from the United States, Canada and Mexico on Sunday wrapped up the first round of talks to revamp the NAFTA trade pact, amid signs that an ambitious schedule to conclude negotiations by early 2018 could slip in the coming months. A U.S. official said the three nations would...

The U.N.'s refugee agency (UNHCR) on Sunday voiced "grave concern" over the eviction of 800 people from a Rome building squatted mainly by asylum seekers and refugees from Eritrea and Ethiopia. The agency said 200 of those expelled from the building on Saturday had had to sleep on the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- A leaked official document showed that the second son of Syria's Defense Minister, had been charged with harassment twenty years ago, such a crime never been an obstacle for him to be senior judge. The Syrian criminal record obtained by Zaman al-Wasl newspaper,...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Islamist Hayat Tahrir al-Sham group arrested 8 moderate fighters over claims they contacted regime army in northern Idlib province, sources told Zaman al-Wasl.   The rebel fighters, who fled Madaya town with their families last April due to the four-town evacuation...

Iraq's Kurds may consider the possibility of postponing a planned Sept. 25 referendum on independence in return for financial and political concessions from the central government in Baghdad, a senior Kurdish official said. A Kurdish delegation is visiting Baghdad to sound out proposals from...