Syria has more than six months' worth of strategic wheat reserves, Internal Trade and Consumer Protection Minister Abdullah al-Gharbi said on Thursday. While President Bashar al-Assad has scored vital military gains against rebels seeking to oust him in a six-year-old civil war he is under...

In the spring of 2015 a Syrian major general escorted a small team of chemical weapons inspectors to a warehouse outside the Syrian capital Damascus. The international experts wanted to examine the site, but were kept waiting outside in their car for around an hour, according to several people...

Iranian opposition leader Mehdi Karroubi, under house arrest for six years, ended his hunger strike late Thursday after the government agreed to remove intelligence agents from his home. However, his demand to face trial - he has never been charged since being placed under house arrest in...

Law enforcement in major U.S. cities were on alert Thursday after a terror attack killed at least 13 victims in Spain and injured dozens more. Public information officers in New York, Chicago, Boston and Los Angeles told Anadolu Agency they were monitoring the situation in Barcelona but that...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 40 fighters from Failaq al-Rahman, key rebel group fighting regime forces in Eastern Ghouta suburbs, have been arrested by powerful Jaish al-Islam militia after storming their bastion near the capital, spokesman said.   Wael Alwan, spokesman for Failaq...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The arrival of new wave of displaced people to the camp of Qana south of the city of Hasaka after Islamic State announced its intention to recruit young people in its areas of control, amid fears of displaced people being harmed by the remnants of primitive crude oil refineries...

A van plowed into crowds in the Spanish city of Barcelona on Thursday and a regional official said 13 people were killed, in what police said they were treating as a terrorist attack. Police said they had arrested a man linked to the attack in the heart of the city, but did not identify him...

U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis insisted Thursday that America is ready to respond to any North Korean threat, after a senior White House official had dismissed talk of a "military option." "In close collaboration with our allies, there are strong military consequences if the DPRK...

Washington's main Syrian ally in the fight against Islamic State says the U.S. military will remain in northern Syria long after the jihadists are defeated, predicting enduring ties with the Kurdish-dominated region. The U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), an alliance of militias...

Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi's office said on Thursday a unit of the security forces committed "abuses" against civilians during the offensive to oust Daesh (ISIS) insurgents from the city of Mosul. His government began an investigation in May into a report by German newsmagazine Der...

An Australian senator provoked an angry backlash from lawmakers by wearing a burqa in Parliament on Thursday as part of her campaign for a national ban on Islamic face covers. Pauline Hanson, leader of the anti-Muslim, anti-immigration One Nation minor party, sat wearing the black...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- An aid convoy of food and medical supplies has reached the besieged town of Douma in Eastern Ghouta suburbs on Thursday as a part of the de-escalation deal brokered by Russia two weeks ago, Local Coordination Committees said.   Along with the Syrian Arab Red...

The United Nations hopes for "serious negotiation" between the government and a still-to-be-formed unified Syrian opposition in October or November this year, the U.N. Special Envoy Staffan de Mistura said on Thursday. "Regarding the [Syrian] government, we are counting very much on Russia,...

Copenhagen police say they are looking for a body in the case of a Swedish journalist missing since a trip on a home-built submarine. Chief investigator Jens Moeller Jensen says "it is our clear presumption that we are looking for a dead person." Moeller Jensen said in a YouTube clip...

The U.S. military says an American soldier was killed and several others wounded in a battle with Daesh (ISIS) militants in eastern Afghanistan. The military said in a statement that several Afghan forces were also wounded in the fighting on Wednesday in the Achin district of the Nangarhar...

Syrian opposition groups say Fadwa Suleiman, a Syrian actress who took center stage at anti-government protests in the early days of the uprising against President Bashar Assad, has died. She was 46. The Syrian National Coalition opposition group said Thursday that Suleiman passed away in...

A multi-agency team scoured the ocean off Hawaii for five soldiers aboard an Army helicopter that went down during a nighttime training exercise. The UH-60 Black Hawk went missing when another Army helicopter training with it lost visual and radio contact about 9:30 p.m. Tuesday, said Lt....

Turkey's EU minister said on Thursday that German Chancellor Angela Merkel's comments about halting the expansion of a customs union between Ankara and the European Union harmed the credibility of the bloc. Merkel said on Wednesday there would be no expansion of the customs union and "no...

Britain is confident it will make "sufficient progress" in negotiations with the European Union by October to move on to the next phase of the talks and discuss future ties with the bloc, the government said on Thursday. After a slow start to negotiations to unravel more than 40 years of...

President Donald Trump’s turnabout on the violence in Charlottesville, Virginia has rocked his administration, leading to rising speculation that some top officials may be looking for a way out. A parade of business executives broke ties with Trump on Wednesday, a day after he blamed white...