Iran called on its regional rival Saudi Arabia on Thursday to free Iranian fishermen, pay compensation for killing a sailor and punish those behind the "irresponsible act", the semi-official Fars news agency reported. Iranian media reported last week that Saudi border guards opened fire on...

Mosul's trademark leaning minaret was missing from its skyline for the first time in centuries Thursday after desperate militants blew it up as Iraqi forces advanced on an ancient mosque compound. Explosions on Wednesday evening levelled the Nuri mosque where Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi gave his...

The United States has told Turkey it will take back weapons supplied to the Kurdish YPG militia in northern Syria after the defeat of ISIS, Ankara said on Thursday, seeking to address Turkish concerns about arming Kurds on its border. Turkish defense ministry sources said U.S. Defense...

A small blast at a graveyard adjacent to the grounds of a NATO military facility in western Turkey damaged the installation's perimeter walls on Thursday but caused no injuries, Turkish media reports said. The state-run Anadolu Agency said the explosion in the city of Izmir was caused by a...

Belgian authorities said Thursday that police detained four people in a series of raids in Brussels linked to the failed bombing at a rail station this week by a man shouting "Allahu akbar." The federal prosecutor's office said that the four were picked up during searches in the Molenbeek...

Iran has begun exporting gas through a pipeline to Baghdad under a deal set to make Iraq the Islamic republic's top customer, the oil ministry said. "Iran's natural gas exports to Baghdad began Wednesday evening," Deputy Oil Minister Amir Hossein Zamaninia said late Wednesday in comments...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 18 civilians killed Thursday in U.S.-led coalition airstrikes on Raqqa in support of Kurdish-led fighters who seek to expel ISIS from the de facto capital in eastern Syria, local monitoring group said. Raqqa Is Being Slaughtered Silently said the Coalition strikes hit...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Heavy clashes are under way between Syria’s southern rebels and the army's elite Fourth Armored Division at the eastern gate of Daraa city, rebel task command said. Al Bunyan al-Marsous, the operation room of key armed factions in southern Syria, said rebels have blockaded...

The scene in Syria's besieged rebel-held town of Douma is almost surreal -- tables laden with food to break the Ramadan fast are surrounded by the crumbling carcasses of bombed-out buildings. The open-air meals are a rare treat in the town in the Eastern Ghouta region outside Damascus, made...

 North Korea on Thursday called US President Donald Trump a "psychopath" as tensions soar following the death of American student Otto Warmbier, who was evacuated in a coma from North Korean detention last week. Pyongyang's official Rodong Sinmun newspaper said the US president was in a...

Large amounts of business investment is being postponed because of uncertainty over the future outcome of Brexit negotiations so Britain should seek clarity as early as possible over a transition arrangement, Finance Minister Philip Hammond said Thursday. "There would be a sigh of relief...

Cristiano Ronaldo said Portugal were worthy winners after scoring his first goal of the Confederations Cup to steer his country to a 1-0 victory over hosts Russia on Wednesday. The Real Madrid star brushed off the tax storm clouding his club future by heading in the only goal in Moscow after...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Since the beginning of June, the Democratic Union Party (PYD) has started a new camp in the Arysha area in southern Hasaka in order to detain displaced families who escaped ISIS-controlled in Deir al-Zour and Markada. Activist Mohanad al-Yousef confirmed theThe Kurdish...

The Islamic State jihadist group on Wednesday blew up Mosul's iconic leaning minaret and the adjacent mosque where their leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi made his only public appearance in 2014, a top commander said.  "Our forces were advancing toward their targets deep in the Old City and...

Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei ordered weekend missile strikes on Islamic State targets in Syria, Revolutionary Guards said, contradicting a previous report that they were authorised by the country's security council. The Guards fired six mid-range surface to surface missiles...

President Emmanuel Macron said on Wednesday he saw no legitimate successor to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and France no longer considered his departure a pre-condition to resolving the six-year-old conflict. He said Assad was an enemy of the Syrian people, but not of France and that...

Western-backed Syrian rebels holding a strategic swathe of the desert southeast stretching to the Iraqi border said they came under major attack from government forces and allied Iranian-backed militias backed by Russian air power. They said hundreds of troops with dozens of armored vehicles...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 5 people were killed Wednesday in a motorbike bomb rocked a marketplace in northern Idlib city, eye-witness told Zaman al-Wasl. 12 more people were also wounded in the attack on al-Jala’a Street. Activists said the death toll is expected to rise due to heavy...

The gunman who shot four people including a senior US lawmaker last week near Washington had kept a list of six members of Congress and was stockpiling ammunition, investigators said Wednesday. FBI officers also said James Hodgkinson, who was killed in a shootout with police during last...

The Taliban have released a new video showing an American and an Australian captive they abducted last August. This is the second video of the captives. The two men - an American identified as Kevin King and an Australian identified as Timothy Weekes - were abducted outside the American...