Germany's interior minister called for tough measures to crack down on soccer fans who commit violent acts, including stadium bans, after fireworks and fires disrupted a match in the Baltic city of Rostock on Monday. Thomas de Maiziere, who also serves as sports minister, told the daily Bild...

Israeli forces demolished the home on Wednesday of a Palestinian who fatally stabbed three Jewish residents of a nearby settlement as tensions soared last month over Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa mosque compound. The military confirmed the demolition in the village of Kobar in the occupied West Bank....

(Eqtsad)- The voices of crying children began to be heard by the doctor in charge of many of them while checking up on them. The doctor placed a medical headset on the chest of a child while a group of newborns slept in transparent incubators in the second room. A few years ago, the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- U.S.-led coalition airstrikes have completely destroyed a church in Raqqa as allied Kurdish forces engage in fierce clashes with the Islamic State inside the city, local monitoring groups said Wednesday.   ‘Our Lady of the Annunciation’ church in the neighborhood of...

An Israeli television report said on Tuesday that Iran is building a facility in northwest Syria to manufacture long-range rockets, and showed satellite images it said were of the site under construction. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned last week that Iran was...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Head of agency Ayn al-Watan (Eye on The homeland) Ahmed Abdul Qadir confirmed Turkish police arrested Muath Hussein, one of the accused of the assassination of two Syrian media activists in Urfa, south of Turkey in 2016.  He said in a statement to Zaman al-Wasl on...

The Libyan coastguard intercepted a humanitarian rescue ship in the Mediterranean on Tuesday, ordering it to sail to Tripoli or risk being targeted, a Reuters photographer aboard said. It was the latest in a series of incidents in which non-governmental organizations (NGOs), operating on the...

By Ali Eid  (Zaman Al Wasl)- On September 6, 2007 Israeli warplanes attacked and completely destroyed al-Kibar Syrian military installation. Israel was silence and also Damascus as if nothing serious happened, but informed sources reported that there is a big deception...

Thousands of Iraqis have fled an Daesh (ISIS)-held town west of Mosul as Iraqi and coalition warplanes step up strikes ahead of a ground offensive to drive out the militants. Tal Afar and the surrounding area is one of the last pockets of Daesh-held territory in Iraq after victory was...

Algeria's president has named Ahmed Ouyahia as prime minister, replacing Abdelmadjid Tebboune after just three months in the job, the president's office said Tuesday. The statement from President Abdelaziz Bouteflika's office gave no reason for the change. Ouyahia, 65, has already served...

At least 11 people were killed by a falling tree during a religious festival on the Portuguese island of Madeira, local media reported on Tuesday. SIC television said 35 others were injured when the tree fell outside a church in a village in the hills overlooking Madeira's capital Funchal....

Mass graves containing the bodies of more than 40 civilians allegedly massacred by Taliban and Daesh (ISIS) insurgents were found on Tuesday after Afghan forces recaptured the village where they died, officials said. In a rare joint operation by the rival militants, fighters killed dozens of...

Western-backed Syrian rebels said they had shot down a Syrian military jet Tuesday in a desert area in southern Syria near the border with Jordan, where the army had recently advanced and seized border posts. Saad al Haj, spokesman for the Osoud al Sharqiya rebel group leader, told Reuters the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- About 200 U.S. Army troops have been deployed near al-Shaddadi town in the southern countryside of Hasaka province this week, sources said.   The U.S. move was in support of a tribesmen militia which used to fight under the banner of Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF)....

 Emboldened and proclaiming victory after a bloody weekend in Virginia, white nationalists are planning more demonstrations to promote their agenda after the violence that left a woman dead and dozens injured. The University of Florida said white provocateur Richard Spencer, whose...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Russia's Hemeimim base in coastal Latakia city indicated on its Facebook page the possibility of a new agreement (ease of tension) in Eastern Ghouta in Damascus countryside. According to the base, the agreement aims to "stop the bloody battles between the conflicting...

 Five suspected Daesh sympathizers have been arrested in Indonesia, a police spokesman said Tuesday, adding that authorities also confiscated bomb making materials. The suspects -- a married couple and three other men -- were detained after a raid by anti-terrorism forces on three...

Saudi Arabia and Iraq plan to open the Arar border crossing for trade for the first time since 1990, when it was closed after the countries cut ties following Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait, Saudi local media reported on Tuesday. Saudi and Iraqi officials toured the site on Monday and...

( The Daily MAil )- ISIS have released pictures showing the medieval punishments their members inflict on people living under their control in the Syrian capital of Damascus.  In one particularly harrowing image, a man can be seen hanging off the edge of a tall building before being...

New U.S. sanctions on Moscow have forced Russian business chiefs to accept that Donald Trump's rise to power is not about to produce a "Trump Bump" in foreign investment. After Trump became U.S. president, some investors said they would be prepared to contemplate new deals with Russian firms...