Yassin Najem knows he has to start again from scratch. His home in Mosul has been bombed, and for him and thousands more displaced Iraqis, returning remains a distant dream. On Monday, the Iraqi authorities announced victory over the jihadists of the Islamic State group. But the...

Flames ripped through three floors of a Honolulu tower block, killing three people including a mother and her adult son on Friday, officials and media said. The blaze at the 36-story Marco Polo condominium complex sent thick black smoke pouring over the city, a month to the day after a...

While 14,999 spectators were left wonderstruck as they watched Roger Federer reach the Wimbledon final a month short of his 36th birthday, there was one man on Centre Court who could have shouted out "been there, done that, got the t-shirt". Anyone even remotely acquainted with Ken Rosewall,...

Turkey on Saturday holds an intense series of events to celebrate the first anniversary of the defeat of last year's attempted coup, showcasing President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's grip on power on the heels of a new purge of state employees. The authorities have declared July 15 an annual...

An Egyptian man stabbed two German tourists to death and wounded four others on Friday at a popular seaside vacation spot on the Red Sea, after apparently searching out foreigners to attack, officials and witnesses said. The knifeman killed the two German women and wounded two other tourists...

( The Guardian )- When they still lived back home in Derik, northern Syria, Silva Hassan Namo and her family would gather each evening around the television to watch the latest episodes of their favourite Mexican telenovelas. Even after civil war forced them to flee to Iraq, the family would...

Australia looks set to fill one of two vacancies on the United Nations Human Rights Council following France's withdrawal from the process, the Herald Sun newspaper said on Saturday, quoting remarks by Foreign Minister Julie Bishop. The appointment would be Australia's first to the powerful...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian engineer Mohammed Aboush and a number of his colleagues launched, “The Failure of the coup in Turkey,” game, through Google's store on the occasion of the first anniversary of the coup against the legitimate government in Turkey. Speaking to Zaman al-Wasl, Aboush...

Frustrated that China has not done more to rein in North Korea, the Trump administration could impose new sanctions on small Chinese banks and other firms doing business with Pyongyang within weeks, two senior U.S. officials said. The U.S. measures would initially hit Chinese entities considered...

They left their homes to escape the government of Syrian President Bashar Assad, and now they are going back. Worn out from months of living in tents, about 150 Syrian families decided this week to return to the city of Homs – even if it meant going back to a life under Assad’s rule. Their...

In four years, Mohammad al-Hassan only heard his son’s voice once: when the young Syrian soldier called a radio show to send regards to his family trapped in militant bastion Raqqa. The 62-year-old and his wife Nazira, who never left their hometown in northern Syria during years of Daesh (ISIS)...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 8 people, including a child, wounded late on Friday in explosive device attack in the northern city of Hasaka, local activists said. The attack took place when an ISIS explosive device detonated near a car affiliated to the Kurdish PYD militia in Gweiran...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Manbij Military Council, key unit in the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), looted and confiscated the property of residents of the town of Rtala, southeast of Raqqa city. Meanwhile other militias in the SDF continue to prevent residents from returning to their homes...

( Juroor )- Raqqa was the first governorate to be out of the regime control, also the first governorate to be under full control of ISIS and may become the first governorate to be governed by Americans!  Regardless of the needed duration for the absolute control of the...

 US-based Muslim preacher Fethullah Gulen, the man blamed by Turkey for a failed coup attempt a year ago, on Friday again denied any involvement in what he called a "despicable putsch," and called on Ankara to end its "witch hunt" of his followers. "Accusations against me related to the...

The head of Daesh in Afghanistan, Abu Sayed, was killed in a strike on the group's headquarters in Kunar province earlier this week, the Pentagon said Friday. In a statement, Pentagon spokeswoman Dana White said the raid on Tuesday had killed other Islamic State members and would...

The Trump administration will appeal to the Supreme Court to block a U.S. district judge's ruling on President Donald Trump's temporary travel and refugee ban, U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions said on Friday. The ruling by U.S. District Judge Derrick Watson in Honolulu said the ban on...

Turkey dismissed several thousand police, ministry staff and academics in a decree one day before the anniversary of last year's attempted coup, extending a purge of state officials, a decree published on Friday showed. Turkey has sacked or suspended more than 150,000 officials since the...

Lebanon will coordinate refugee returns to Syria only with the United Nations, Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri said on Friday, days after a number of refugees left for Syria under an agreement brokered by Lebanese Shi'ite group Hezbollah. Lebanon's powerful Hezbollah group backs Syrian...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Tensions escalated between powerful Ahrar al-Sham and Hayat Tahrir al-Sham in northern Idlib province over killing two fighters from the former al-Qaeda branch in Syria, local activists said Friday. Imad el-Din Moujahed, the Press Officer of Tahrir al-Sham denied...