Kabul authorities Tuesday demolished a sit-in camp erected to protest spiraling insecurity, triggering street clashes that left at least one demonstrator dead in the latest bout of violence to shake the city. Tensions have been high in Kabul since a truck bomb on May 31 killed more than 150...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian rebels on Tuesday have retaken an air base from regime forces in the southern city of Daraa, rebel task command said. Al Bunyan al-Marsous operation room said the opposition fighters launched a surprise attack on the strategic base in the Old City of Daraa that...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The Islamic State published a new video (16 minutes long) entitled “God will Bless them” showing its actions against the New Syrian Army which according to the Islamic State works under Washington’s orders. The Islamic State forces described the New Syrian Army fighters as...

Iraq and Saudi Arabia are setting up a coordination council to upgrade strategic ties, a joint statement said on Tuesday, as part of an attempt to heal troubled relations between the Arab neighbors. Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi met with Saudi King Salman a day earlier on the first leg...

Otto Warmbier, the US student released in a coma last week after nearly 18 months in detention in North Korea, died on Monday, prompting President Donald Trump to slam the "brutal regime" in Pyongyang. The 22-year-old was medically evacuated to the United States last Tuesday, suffering from...

A “terrorist” bomb attack in a Shiite village in Bahrain has killed a policeman and wounded two others, the Interior Ministry in the Gulf kingdom said Monday. The attack late Sunday occurred in Diraz, west of Manama, the ministry said on its Twitter account. Witnesses said they heard a loud...

British authorities and Islamic leaders moved swiftly to ease concerns in the Muslim community after a man plowed a large van into a crowd of worshippers outside a north London mosque early Monday, injuring at least nine people. British media named the suspect as Darren Osborne, 47-year-old...

President Donald Trump has ordered stepped-up military operations against Islamic State and delegated more authority to his generals, but without a comprehensive Syria strategy, his approach risks further confrontation with Syria, Iran and even Russia, according to U.S. officials and analysts....

  (Zaman Al Wasl)- Senior rebel commander on Tuesday was killed and 12 more people were wounded in an explosive device attack in northern city of al-Bab after three days since 12 Turkish-backed rebel factions agreed to end infighting. Sultan Murad Division said on its official Twitter...

An Al-Qaeda-linked jihadist alliance claimed responsibility Monday for an attack on a tourist resort near Mali's capital that killed five people, in a statement carried by Mauritanian news agencies and posted on social media. The Group to Support Islam and Muslims, a fusion of jihadist...

Brazil's government has halted exports of tear gas for use in Venezuela due to violent repression of protests there, two sources familiar with the decision said on Monday, a move that added to the diplomatic isolation of Venezuela President Nicolas Maduro. Brazil's Defense Ministry and...

A fire broke out on the roof of a nuclear reactor at the Bugey plant in central-eastern France, the country's nuclear regulator ASN said on Monday. The fire began at 13:26 GMT at the plant's nuclear reactor number 5, which is operated by EDF and located 35 kilometers from the city of Lyon,...

U.S. President Donald Trump's speech on Cuba was a "grotesque spectacle," but the island's government will continue working towards better relations with the majority of Americans who back detente, Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez said on Monday. Trump announced a partial rollback of...

Russia, Iran and the United States are drawing new red lines for each other in Syria, with Moscow warning Washington on Monday it would treat any U.S.-led coalition planes in its area of operations as potential targets after the U.S. air force downed a Syrian jet. Tensions escalated on...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian monitoring group said the Iranian missile attack on so-called ISIS targets on Sunday night had hit only residential areas in the countryside of Deir Ezzor province. Furat Post, media monitor tracks war in the eastern province, said no ISIS targets were hit by Iran’s...

An Iraqi journalist was killed and three French reporters were wounded after a mine exploded in Mosul, where they were covering an advance by Iraqi forces against ISIS militants, France 2 television and a diplomatic source said on Monday. The television network said Iraqi journalist...

Reporting by Faris Rifai (Zaman Al Wasl) Ahmad al-Jassem, a young Syrian athlete, won first place in his group at the 10 Kilometer marathon in the Stockholm Athletics Championships after a tough and difficult race with more than 3,000 contestants from different Swedish cities. Al-Jassem won...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Former opposition head and moderate cleric Moaz al-Khatib has resigned from the Riyadh-based High Negotiations Committee (HNC) over discords related to reforms inside the key opposition group, sources said. Al-Khatib who was the first head of  the Syrian National...

A driver appeared to deliberately crash his car into a police van on the French capital's Champs Elysees avenue on Monday, the interior ministry said. The Paris prosecutor's anti-terrorism unit said it had opened an investigation. Read More:  Gunfire on aid convoy wounds one...

Seventy-nine people are dead or missing and presumed dead following a devastating blaze in a London tower block, police said Monday, as Britain held a minute's silence for the victims. "I'm afraid to say there are now 79 people that we believe are either dead or missing and I sadly have to...