A U.S. judge on Tuesday ruled that the government cannot immediately deport nearly 200 Iraqi immigrants arrested last month who argued they would face persecution if they were removed from the country. U.S. District Judge Mark Goldsmith in Michigan said he had the authority to order the...

The U.S.-led coalition says an Amnesty International report accusing its forces of violating international law during the fight against Daesh (ISIS) in Mosul is "irresponsible." Col. Joe Scrocca, a coalition spokesman, told The Associated Press on Wednesday that "war is not pleasant, and...

Presidential candidate Donald Trump's eldest son eagerly agreed last year to meet a woman he was told was a Russian government lawyer who might have information incriminating Democratic rival Hillary Clinton as part of Moscow's official support for his father, according to an email chain...

The United States deployed a battery of Patriot ground-to-air missiles in Lithuania on Tuesday as part of multinational NATO exercises in the the Baltic country, its defence ministry announced. The deployment "reflects the firm engagement of the United States to ensure Lithuania's security...

Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said on Tuesday that the defeat of Islamic State in Mosul was a "great step" that would pave the way to eliminating the group. In comments broadcast on the Lebanese Shi'ite group's Manar television station, Nasarallah also said the routing of the...

The United States said on Tuesday it shot down a simulated, incoming intermediate-range ballistic missile similar the ones being developed by countries like North Korea, in a new test of the nation's defenses. Planned months ago, the U.S. missile defense test over the Pacific Ocean has...

Eyeing a historic solo flight around the world, Afghan-American commercial pilot Shaesta Waiz has been given royal treatment at her war-torn country, where she is currently on a two-day break from her trip which began in Florida two months ago. An enthusiastic crowd of civil society...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The Democratic Union Party continues to market civil marriage among residents in Hasaka province, but this type of marriage remains popular only among party supporters while local residents continue to ignore the Party’s demands on this issue.  The municipality...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 10 people from the same family were killed when U.S.-led warplanes struck the southern countryside of Hasaka province, activists said Tuesday. The strikes hit al-Zyanat village near Markada town, ISIS last stronghold in Hasaka. Last Wednesday,...

Germany welcomes signs the United States is engaging with Russia on Ukraine and Syria, but worries it will struggle to play a constructive role as long as its policy aims remain confused and the furor rages on over Moscow's role in the U.S. election, a senior German official said. In an...

Egypt said Tuesday a member of a violent group suspected of links to the now-banned Muslim Brotherhood has been killed in a shootout with security forces, the latest in what appears to be a stepped-up crackdown on militants across the country. The Interior Ministry, which is in charge of...

wo Americans and a Briton have died fighting alongside Syrian Kurdish forces as they battle to oust Daesh (ISIS) from its Raqqa stronghold, the forces said Tuesday. The three men volunteering with the Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) appear to be the first foreign volunteers to have...

The U.N. health agency says plans to ship cholera vaccine to Yemen are likely to be shelved over security, access and logistical challenges in the war-torn country. Yemen's suspected cholera caseload has surged past 313,000, causing over 1,700 deaths in the world's largest outbreak. War has...

The Lebanese army killed a suspected Islamic State-linked militant accused of carrying out several bomb attacks in Ras Baalbek town near the Syrian border, a security source and a military source said on Tuesday. The man, a Syrian national, was shot dead during an operation launched after...

A Western-backed rebel group in Syria and a monitor of the conflict there said rebels fired anti-aircraft machine guns at a Syrian military jet on Tuesday, damaging the plane, about 80 km (50 miles) east of Damascus. Western-backed rebels had also hit another Syrian military jet last month,...

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights told Reuters on Tuesday that it had "confirmed information" that Daesh (ISIS) leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi has been killed. Russia's Defense Ministry said in June that it might have killed Baghdadi when one of its air strikes hit a gathering of Daesh...

Up to 50,000 civilians remain trapped in the Syrian extremist stronghold of Raqqa, the UN said Tuesday, warning that supplies of water and other essentials were fast running out. US-backed forces have been closing in on the last redoubt in Syria of Daesh (ISIS) after penetrating its Old City...

China hit back on Tuesday in unusually strong terms at repeated calls from the United States to put more pressure on North Korea, urging a halt to what it called the "China responsibility theory", and saying all parties needed to pull their weight. U.S President Trump took a more...

U.S.-backed Syrian militias have captured a town south of the city of Raqqa where Daesh (ISIS) ran a major military base and training camp, a spokesman for the militias said on Tuesday. An alliance of Kurdish and Arab militias fighting under the banner of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF)...

Daesh (ISIS) has captured most of a village south of Mosul despite losing control of its stronghold in the city, an Iraqi army officer and residents said, deploying guerrilla-style tactics as its self-proclaimed caliphate crumbles. Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi declared victory over Daesh...