The leaning minaret of Mosul's Grand al-Nuri Mosque survived conquests by the Mongols and the Ottomans, neglect under Saddam Hussein, and air raids during the Iran-Iraq War and the U.S. invasion in 2003. But after three years of Daesh (ISIS) rule, it is now little more than a pile of stones...

(Zaman Al Wasl)-  Pro-regime media outlets mourned 42 troops, including 11 officers, who had been killed by the Islamic State in the Syrian desert last June. The desert, also known as Badiya, extends over 90,000 square kilometres (35,000 square miles) from central Syria to the borders...

British Prime Minister Theresa May's government on Saturday rejected demands that she appoint commissioners to run the local government blamed for mishandling the response to the London high-rise apartment building fire that killed at least 80 people. London Mayor Sadiq Khan had asked May to...

US-backed fighters have launched a renewed attack on Daesh (ISIS) extremists inside their Syrian bastion Raqqa, seeking to retake a key eastern neighborhood, a monitor said on Saturday. "The Syrian Democratic Forces started a counter-offensive on Friday night to retake Al-Senaa," said Rami...

Ukraine said on Saturday that Russian security services were involved in a recent cyber attack on the country, with the aim of destroying important data and spreading panic. The SBU, Ukraine's state security service, said the attack, which started in Ukraine and spread around the world on...

The EU will pay an unprecedented tribute Saturday to former German chancellor Helmut Kohl, one of the architects of modern Europe, in a ceremony attended by a host of leaders. Kohl, who oversaw German reunification and was a driving force in Europe's integration, died on June 16 at age of...

Chinese President Xi Jinping swore in Hong Kong's new leader on Saturday with a stark warning that Beijing won't tolerate any challenge to its authority in the divided city as it marked the 20th anniversary of its return from Britain to China. Police blocked roads, preventing pro-democracy...

A tanker carrying 38,000 tons of petroleum products and a 220-meter (720-foot) cargo ship collided Saturday in the waters between France and Britain, French authorities said. No one was injured in the crash between the boats and "no pollution has been detected at this stage", the authorities...

A House panel has approved a measure calling for debate on new presidential war powers as the U.S. gets more involved in Syria's civil war. The measure proposed by an anti-war Democrat, congresswoman Barbara Lee of California, is now part of a military spending bill. The Republican-led House...

British Prime Minister Theresa May is making Brexit minister David Davis's job of delivering Brexit harder because of her "absolutist" approach, according to his chief of staff who resigned last month. James Chapman told the BBC that said May's insistence that the European Court of Justice...

American Muslim leaders Friday decried Donald Trump's rhetoric towards their community and predicted the president's travel ban would eventually be proven unlawful, a day after a weakened version of the measure came into force. A limited version of Trump's travel ban -- temporarily barring...

The Syrian government has vastly overestimated the size of the country’s wheat crop, officials, traders and farmers told Reuters, indicating that a population that has endured unrelenting war could struggle to feed itself this year. A large part of Syria’s agricultural heartland in the north...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regim security services have tortured to death at least 13,000 people, including children and women, since the beginning of the Syrian revolution in March 2011 and until the end of June 2017, The Syrian Network for Human Rights said . In its annual report, entitled...

(Zaman Al Wasl TV)- Sharif Qaytaz, 31, is a dissident line officer from the al-Assad police force and the first head of a revolutionary police station in Idlib province. He was paralyzed while on duty when an armed and masked group shot him during a car chase. Doctors decided to move him to...

( Middle East Monitor )- Iraqi officials have declared that Daesh’s caliphate is finished. On June 29, after months of urban warfare and US air strikes, Iraqi forces say they are on the verge of expelling the militants from their last holdouts in Mosul. “Their fictitious state has fallen,” an...

British consumers have suffered the longest decline in their spending power since the 1970s, raising questions about whether the Bank of England really is likely to raise interest rates any time soon. Official data published Friday confirmed that the world’s fifth-biggest economy went into a...

  (Zaman Al Wasl)- This amputated hand is that of a refugee who used to live in al-Nour camp in the Lebanese town of Arsal. It was found thrown on a mat on Friday. The hand is a sign and reminder of the Lebanese Majqul Company’s raid on the camp in search of those they call terrorists...

President Donald Trump is forming a National Space Council to be led by Vice President Mike Pence. The president signed an executive order Friday to revive a council last in place in 1993. Trump says the announcement sends a clear signal to the world about the United States' leadership...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 20 Syrian refugees were killed and 400 more were arrested when the Lebanese army raided two refugee camps in the Arsal area at the border with Syria on Friday, local reporter said. The raids were part of a major security sweep by the army in an area that has...

Iraqi soldiers snap victorious "selfies" and pose with a captured Islamic State group flag at the Mosul mosque where militant chief Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi once spoke. "Where is Baghdadi?" they say, taunting the absent militant leader at the site of his triumphal 2014 appearance, the only time...