Eight people were injured in a knife attack in the Siberian city of Surgut, Russian media agencies reported, citing the spokesman for the local office of the Russian law enforcement committee. "A man was running along the main streets stabbing people", TASS reported. The law...
The Lebanese army launched an offensive on Saturday against an Islamic State enclave on the northeast border with Syria as the Lebanese Shi'ite group Hezbollah announced an assault on the militants from the Syrian side of the frontier. The Lebanese army operation got underway at 5 a.m....
An Israeli cabinet minister has said relations with US President Donald Trump take priority over condemning neo-Nazis, to justify Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's muted response to events in Charlottesville. Critics have accused Netanyahu of being slow to condemn extremism and...
President Donald Trump on Friday finally parted ways with controversial far-right chief strategist Steve Bannon, after weeks of speculation and as the administration reels from the fallout over Trump's response to a violent white supremacist rally. Seen as the driving force behind...
Venezuela's new pro-government constitutional authority formally declared Friday it was seizing power from the opposition-led legislature, tightening President Nicolas Maduro's grip on the country in defiance of international outrage. It was the latest maneuver in a deadly political crisis...
The Syrian army and Hezbollah attacked a pocket of territory occupied by Islamic State straddling the border with Lebanon from the Syrian side, seizing a number of hilltops on Friday, a Hezbollah military media unit said. Hezbollah fighters and Syrian soldiers were "tightening the noose" on...
Egypt has blocked access to the website of media watchdog Reporters Without Borders, adding RSF to a growing list of restricted online sites in the North African country. The Paris-based group said Thursday its website was blocked on August 14, shortly after it had issued a statement...
With U.S. President Donald Trump increasingly isolated over his response to white nationalist violence in Virginia, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson issued a broad condemnation of racism on Friday and promised to make his department more racially diverse. Trump is facing a widening backlash...
The forces of Libyan military strongman Khalifa Haftar said Friday they had detained a senior commander two weeks before the International Criminal Court issued a warrant for his arrest over unlawful killings in the flashpoint city of Benghazi. "We hereby inform you that the defendant ......
U.S. stocks dropped early Friday, as the battering of markets in the wake of a major attack in Spain showed no signs of slowing, and amid what one analyst called "festering dysfunction" at the White House. The Dow slipped 0.2 percent to 21,700.43 about 15 minutes after the open, and the...
Syria's army and its allies have encircled a Daesh (ISIS) pocket in central Syria after a series of advances in the desert region, state media, Hezbollah-run media and a war monitor reported on Friday. President Bashar al-Assad's military has advanced against Daesh along two prongs towards...
Gunmen killed seven family members of an Iraqi police officer, including a teenage son, in a pre-dawn attack Friday on their home near the northern city of Kirkuk, security officials told AFP. A Kirkuk police captain, asking not to be named, said the unidentified assailants had kidnapped the...
An advisor to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has said the six-year war is nearly over as foreign states cut backing for rebels, and vowed the government would confront any "illegitimate" forces, whether Turkish or American. Bouthaina Shaaban said the fact that Syria was staging the...
The United States' most senior military officer on Friday said North Korea understands that an any attack on Japan is equal to one on the U.S. itself - and vice versa. General Joe Dunford, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, held talks with his Japanese counterpart at the defence ministry...
(Zaman Al Wasl)- Failaq al-Rahman, key rebel group fighting regime forces in Eastern Ghouta suburbs, has reached a ceasefire deal with regime forces after weeks of fierce fighting near the capital, the group said in statement Friday. Failaq al-Rahman agreed to join the...
French police moved out around 2,000 migrants from a makeshift camp in an area north of Paris on Friday, the 35th evacuation operation in two years in the capital. A similar roundup of the mostly Afghan and African migrants around the Porte de la Chapelle area in July saw 2,800 moved from...
European travel stocks fell sharply in early trading on Friday after a deadly attack in tourist hotspot Barcelona, with investors also increasingly concerned the Trump administration was fraying at the seams. As a global sell-off spread, the pan-European STOXX 600 was down 0.9 percent by...
(Zaman Al Wasl)- Powerful Hayat Tahrir al-Sham jihadist group on Thursday arrested a prominent rebel fighter in northern Idlib province, commander said. The former al-Qaeda group in Syria arrested Basem al-Hammoud, 34, who operates under the Northern Division banner. The...
(Eqtsad)- The northern Homs countryside has seen an unprecedented rise in the prices of food, commercial goods and fuel over the past week. The rise in prices preceded the agreement to reduce escalation that went into force three weeks ago. Based on the agreement, two...
Twenty-six French citizens were injured in Thursday's attack in Barcelona, with at least 11 of them in serious condition, the French Foreign Affairs Ministry said in a statement. The statement added that French Foreign Affairs Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian would visit Barcelona later on Friday...
