A 34-year-old man opened fire in a nightclub in the southern German city of Konstanz on Sunday, killing one person and seriously injuring three others, police said. The suspect suffered life-threatening injuries in a gunfight with police officers outside the music venue after they had rushed...

More than 40 troops and rebels have been killed in several days of clashes between Yemen's Saudi Arabia-backed army and insurgents allied with Iran near the Red Sea port of Mokha, officials said Sunday. Sixteen Huthi rebels and seven soldiers were killed in overnight clashes east of Mokha, a...

The United States flew two supersonic bombers over the Korean Peninsula on Sunday in a show of force against North Korea following the country’s latest intercontinental ballistic missile test. The B-1 bombers were escorted by South Korean fighter jets as they performed a low-pass over an air...

More than 22,000 people were evacuated Saturday when the stage at an electronic music festival near Barcelona erupted in flames, sending revellers running. Firefighters rushed to the Tomorrowland festival in Santa Coloma de Gramenet in northeastern Spain, and eventually managed to extinguish...

( The New Arab )- Yemen's cholera epidemic has killed 1,992 people, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Saturday, with north-western province of Hajjah and the Red Sea port city of Hodeida being particulary hit-hard by the waterborne disease. It added that 419,804 suspected cases of the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Prominent military figures were targeted by the assassination during a period of 10 days amid clear incompetence in identifying the perpetrators in Dumeir where resistance has captured the city in northern Damascus countryside recently. In this regard, Saad al-Haj,...

( The Globe and Mail )- At 2 a.m. in the midst of Ramadan in 2012, Mohamed Sharbaji got a call from a neighbour of his Aleppo home: “There are men with guns in your house.” In the moment before that conversation, Mr. Sharbaji was a man of influence. A former business owner and land...

Air France Saturday announced it was suspending flights to crisis-hit Venezuela ahead of a controversial weekend election called by President Nicolas Maduro that has provoked deadly violence and international criticism. The carrier said it was monitoring the situation and that flights would...

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Saturday pardoned two women who were sentenced to prison terms for sending text messages to Georgian acquaintances about the movement of Russian military equipment on the eve of a war in 2008. Two orders published by the Kremlin said Annik Kesyan and...

As Islamic State group fighters steadily lose chunks of their Syrian bastion Raqa to a US-backed force, the jihadists are ramping up the ferocity of their counter-attacks. The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) first broke into Raqa in early June and have advanced in a pincer-like motion towards...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The number of Syrian refugees wishing to accompany Tahrir al-Sham from Irsal to the north of Syria, reached 6000 refugees including 50 families from the border town of Arsal, spokesman said.  While the number of Syrians wishing to accompany the faction of...

The Kurdish-led administration in northern Syria will hold elections for local councils and a regional assembly in September, November and January, a Kurdish official said on Saturday on a social networking feed. Kurdish groups and their allies control swathes of northern Syria in areas held...

The Saudi-led coalition backing Yemen's government said Shiite Huthi rebels on Saturday used a remote-controlled boat packed with explosives to attack the Red Sea port of Mokha, but without causing casualties. "On Saturday at dawn, Huthi militiamen targeted the port of Mokha with a remotely...

Barcelona captain Andres Iniesta said he would rather have Neymar at the club than a massive transfer fee, with speculations linking the Brazilian to Paris Saint-Germain in a world record deal. PSG have reportedly held discussions with Barcelona about a transfer for the 25 year-old that...

Syria's army and its allies on Saturday reached the edge of al-Sukhna, the last town held by Daesh (ISIS) in Homs province and a key step in their multi-pronged offensive against the militants, a Hezbollah-run military media unit said. Sukhna is on the main desert highway between Palmyra and...

Suspected Boko Haram members released a video on Saturday that shows three kidnapped members of an oil exploration team in northeastern Nigeria, one of whom asks the government to reduce the use of force against the militants. The team, which included university staff and employees from...

 Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas' spokesman says the 82-year-old leader has been hospitalized for a routine checkup and will be discharged in a matter of hours. Nabil Abu Rudeineh says Abbas is undergoing regular examinations Saturday at a Ramallah hospital. Abbas, a smoker, has...

Iran's elite Revolutionary Guard said Saturday a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier fired a warning shot in an "unprofessional" confrontation with Iranian vessels, the official IRNA news agency reported. IRNA quoted a statement from the Guard as saying that the USS Nimitz and an accompanying ship...

(The Economist)- The guns have fallen silent over southern Syria. Under a deal brokered by Russia and America, the Syrian regime and its rebel adversaries, which have fought for six bloody years, have agreed to stop killing each other in parts of the country. Since the truce came into force on...

A former British soldier who went to Syria to fight Islamic State has been arrested in Turkey. Joe Robinson, who used to live in Accrington, Lancashire, was detained along with his girlfriend and her mother while the trio were on holiday. While the two women have since been released,...