Six Syrian actors battled a fraught U.S. visa process to tread the boards in New York this week, seeking to impress upon American theatergoers the human cost of a war raging halfway round the world. Nothing could be further from the typical summer entertainment in this city of flamboyant wealth...

Israel has shifted from low-key humanitarian aid for Syrian civil war victims into a hearts-and-minds campaign billed as fostering new friends across a frontier that has been hostile for decades. Under a year-old expanded relief project disclosed to media this week, groups of Syrians have...

Syrian rebels said on Thursday a U.S. decision to halt a covert CIA program of military aid would mark a big blow to the Syrian opposition and risked allowing jihadists to tighten their grip over the insurgency. Rebels who have received aid under the CIA program said they had yet to be...

Police fired tear gas and used truncheons to scatter hundreds of protesters in northern Morocco, a Reuters witness said on Thursday, part of the biggest wave of demonstrations in the kingdom since Arab Spring-inspired rallies in 2011. People have taken to the streets in the Rif region around...

Vienna airport officials say security measures are being increased with the installation of face-scanning systems at passport control points. The Austrian officials said Thursday the installations will start in December at 50 airport security gates used for entry from outside the Schengen...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Thousands of Syrian refugees in the Lebanese border town of Arsal still have mixed feelings of terror, anticipation and caution after the Lebanese Army’s operation on two refugee camps in the area in which 21 refugees were killed among them a child and 400...

Clashes with Russian-backed rebels left six Ukrainian soldiers dead Thursday in the bloodiest surge in fighting along the volatile frontline in recent months. The violence flared several days after a top rebel leader announced a plan to form a new "state" that Kiev warned could put a...

( The Guardian )- German authorities are investigating whether a suspected Islamic State fighter seized by Iraqi forces in the war-torn city of Mosul is a 16-year-old German schoolgirl who disappeared from her parents’ home in Saxony a year ago after apparently being groomed by jihadist groups...

President Tayyip Erdogan's spokesman on Thursday said the Turkish government did not play a role in the publication by its state-run news agency of locations of what appeared to be U.S. military posts in Syria. Ibrahim Kalin made the comment at a news conference after the Pentagon said on...

Human Rights Watch Thursday called for an investigation into the deaths of five Syrian nationals and ill-treatment of detainees while in Lebanese Army custody. Human Rights Watch released a statement, which claimed that the Army was responsible for the death of five Syrian nationals and the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 13 troops were killed in clashes with the Islamic State in the eastern countryside of Hama province, medics told Zaman al-Wasl Thursday. The National Hospital of Salamiya town east of Hama received 13 bodies for troops of the Fifth Corps, including two...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Noor al-Din al-Zenki Movement broke away from the Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham on Thursday over the ongoing clashes between the former a;-Qaeda group and powerful Ahrar al-Sham movement. In a video statement, the Nour al-Din al-Zenki Movement said that while it...

 At least 28 Syrian government soldiers and pro-regime fighters were killed Wednesday in a rebel ambush in the eastern Ghouta region near Damascus, a monitor said Thursday. The fighters came under attack by the Army of Islam rebel group as they attempted to advance in the town of...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Three civilians wounded on Thursday as infighting continues between Ahrar al-Sham and Tahrir al-Sham Islamist groups in northern Idlib province amid calls to halt the clashes to avoid Turkish intervention. The rival Islamist groups engaged in heavy fighting for the...

The parents of a U.S. journalist kidnapped in Syria nearly five years ago issued a new plea for his release on Thursday. Austin Tice, a freelance reporter and former U.S. Marine from Houston, Texas, was kidnapped in August 2012 aged 31 while reporting in Damascus on the uprising against...

Some 250 residents of Syria's Raqqa province are the latest batch to graduate from a brief U.S. training course. They are part of an internal security force to hold and secure areas as they are captured from Daesh (ISIS) militants. The graduation ceremony Thursday in the desert town of Ain...

Iraqi forces on Thursday regained control over Imam Gharbi, a village south of Mosul, from Daesh (ISIS) militants who had seized it as their defense of their stronghold in the city crumbled, Iraqi police said. The action formed part of the next phase of the U.S.-backed government's campaign...

 Members of the Trump campaign's inner circle, including his eldest son and son-in-law, are being called before Senate committees next week to talk about the 2016 election. The week has the potential to deliver the most high-profile congressional testimony involving the Russian meddling...

Britain has told Turkish authorities it will lift the ban on electronics in aircraft cabins in flights from Turkey, the state-run Anadolu news agency said on Thursday, citing diplomatic sources. The sources said that Alan Duncan, Britain's minister for Europe and Foreign Minister Boris...

 France's top military chief resigned Wednesday after a war of words with Emmanuel Macron over budget cuts that tested the new president's authority. The row between Macron and General Pierre de Villiers erupted last week when the chief of staff told a parliamentary committee he would...