The direction of President Donald Trump's foreign policy is at the center of a battle between two of his top aides. Conservative groups are targeting national security adviser H.R. McMaster. They argue that he's insufficiently supportive of Israel and not tough enough on Iran. Those critics...

An Israeli officer was killed and his co-pilot seriously injured when their Apache attack helicopter crashed on landing at an air force base, a military spokeswoman said on Tuesday. "A military helicopter crashed at an Israeli Air Force (IAF) base in southern Israel," she told AFP, adding...

The U.N. warned of a deepening crisis Tuesday after another asylum-seeker was found dead at a Pacific island detention camp, urging Australia to ensure protection for vulnerable refugees as closure of the facility nears. Canberra sends anyone who tries to enter the country by boat without a...

     (Zaman Al Wasl)- The U.S.-led coalition airstrikes on Monday killed and wounded 150  militants from Sayyed al-Shuhada' Battalions, an Iran-backed Shiite group, while they were crossing the Iraqi border to northeastern Syria, according to the militia's statement....

Al-Qaeda fighters have retreated from an oil-rich southern province of war-ravaged Yemen in the face of an assault by an elite US-backed government force, a military official said Monday. Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), seen by the United States as the global network's most...

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Monday said a U.N. commission probing war crimes in Syria should continue its work despite the resignation of prosecutor Carla Del Ponte from the panel. Del Ponte quit in protest at the lack of followup action from the U.N. Security Council to a...

A bomb blast on Monday wounded at least 22 people in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore, a government official said, with no one immediately claiming responsibility. Attacks in the Punjab provincial capital have become less frequent over the past couple of years but Islamist militant...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Islamic State arrested 40 rebel fighters in the southern suburbs of Damascus over links with Islam Army, source told Zaman al-Wasl on Sunday.   The fighters operate under the banner of Liwa Shuhada' Dimashq, or Damascus Martyrs Brigade, a moderate unit belongs...

Days after a reshuffle of Turkey's top military commanders, President Tayyip Erdogan has revived warnings of military action against Kurdish fighters in Syria that could set back the U.S.-led battle against Islamic State. Kurdish militia are spearheading an assault against the hardline...

Syrian opposition activists say government warplanes have bombed a suburb of the capital Damascus where President Bashar Assad's forces are fighting insurgents. Monday's violence in the eastern Damascus suburb of Ain Tarma comes amid a truce in the area that went into effect last month....

A Pakistani charity that the United States accuses of being a front for anti-India militant group that staged the 2008 Mumbai attacks has entered politics by forming a new party, charity officials said Monday. The new Milli Muslim League party will follow the ideology of Jamaat-ud-Dawa...

An Israeli military court has refused to postpone the imprisonment of a soldier sentenced to 18 months for killing a wounded Palestinian and he will be jailed this week, the army said Monday. Elor Azaria had applied on Sunday for a delay to his prison term. "His request was rejected and...

The Iraqi army will remain responsible for security in the northern city of Mosul until local police forces restore their pre-Daesh capabilities, a military spokesman said Monday. “There are no plans to withdraw military units from newly recaptured Mosul; it’s still too early for that,”...

Jordan's King Abdullah II began a rare visit to the occupied West Bank to meet Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas on Monday, amid shared tensions with Israel over a flashpoint Jerusalem holy site. In his first visit to Abbas's headquarters in Ramallah in five years, Abdullah was welcomed on...

 Iran has mocked the U.S. push for inspections of the country's military sites, calling it a "ridiculous dream that will never come true." This comes after U.S. officials said last month that the Trump administration is pushing for inspections of suspicious Iranian military sites in a...

Armed with extraordinary new U.N. sanctions, nations raced Monday to ensure that North Korea's biggest trading partners actually carry them out, an elusive task that has undercut past attempts to strong-arm Pyongyang into abandoning its nuclear weapons. North Korea reacted angrily, vowing to...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Two explosions rocked an army barrack in regime-held Aleppo city on Monday, leaving one soldier killed, a rebel group that carried out the attack told Zaman al-Wasl.   Seryyat Abu Amara, or Abu Amara Vanguard, said it will reveal more details about the attack...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Russian military police have been deployed in the northern countryside of central Homs province, setting up two checkpoints and observation points as part of a cease-fire deal reached last week.    The main Russian checkpoint was in Dar al-Kabira crossing,...

An ORB opinion poll published on Monday showed that 61 percent of British voters disapprove of Prime Minister Theresa May's handling of the Brexit negotiations. Britain has less than two years to negotiate the terms of the divorce and the outlines of the future relationship before it is due...

President Donald Trump has asked his advisers "tough questions" about American strategy in Afghanistan and is not willing to continue on as before, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said Monday. The White House has launched a review of the U.S. plan for Afghanistan after 16 years of war, and...