Israel on Monday began reducing its electricity supplies to the two million Palestinians in the Gaza Strip already suffering from insufficient flow, electricity authorities on both sides said. Israel "began to reduce by eight megawatts flow to electricity lines" into the Palestinian...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Main task command of rebels in southern Daraa province said Monday the ceasefire deal with regime forces and allied militias was reached to lessen the suffering of residents after weeks of heavy aerial bombing. Al Bunyan al-Marsous assured in statement that its fighters will...

 Several intercity rail tracks in Germany were hit by arson attacks overnight, police said Monday, in what could be protest action by left-wing extremists ahead of the G20 summit in July. Cable ducts of rail signalling equipment were set on fire in the states of Lower Saxony, Berlin,...

( The New Arab )- Police in the US state of Virginia found the remains of a missing Muslim teenager who was assaulted and disappeared overnight after leaving a mosque with her friends in the Sterling area, a statement said on Sunday. Fairfax County police found the body of 17-year-old Nabra...

A top Russian diplomat has condemned the United States for shooting down a Syrian Air Force fighter jet the previous day as an act of "aggression." The U.S. military confirmed a U.S. F-18 Super Hornet shot down Sunday a Syrian SU-22 after it dropped bombs near the U.S. partner forces, known...

London police, already stretched by a series of major incidents around the capital, are putting more officers on the street to reassure the public after a driver plowed into a crowd of people leaving a mosque early Monday. One man died at the scene and 10 people were injured. Police say a...

Iraqi forces pushed deeper into Mosul's Old City on Monday after launching a final assault on ISIS, warning civilians to stay inside and telling extremists to "surrender or die". Iraqi forces launched the operation Sunday to retake the district, the last part of Iraq's second city still held...

 (Zaman Al Wasl TV)- The blood bank in Idlib is suffering from a shortage in the quantities of blood required to cover the needs of the injured and sick in the province. The blood bank supplies about one third of the hospitals in the province including those in Idlib city, Binesh, Maarat...

The attack comes at a time of political turmoil in Britain, as May, weakened by the loss of her parliamentary majority in a June 8 election, plunges into divorce talks with the European Union. She has faced heavy criticism for her response to a fire in a London tower block last Wednesday...

The downing of a Syrian government warplane by the United States is a step toward a dangerous escalation, and Moscow is warning Washington not to use force against Syrian government troops, a senior Russian diplomat told Interfax news agency on Monday. Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei...

( The Wall Street Journal )- Israel has been regularly supplying Syrian rebels near its border with cash as well as food, fuel and medical supplies for years, a secret engagement in the enemy country’s civil war aimed at carving out a buffer zone populated by friendly forces. The Israeli...

Iran's Revolutionary Guards Monday said missiles it fired into Syria had successfully hit ISIS targets in retaliation for Tehran attacks claimed by the jihadists earlier this month. "Based on credible information, the missile operation against Daesh has been successful," Revolutionary Guards...

Devastating conflicts, violence and persecution in places like Syria and South Sudan had left a record 65.6 million people uprooted from their homes by the end of 2016, the United Nations said Monday. That number marks a jump of just 300,000 from the end of 2015, but is more than six million...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- In recent years, many rappers, collectives and individuals, have appeared which speak to the language of the streets and highlight the suffering of those caught up in the Syrian war. In the recent period, the Syrian rap scene has been transformed from a marginal artistic style...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 12 people from the same family were killed Sunday in the U.S.-led coalition air strikes in Hasaka province, the Islamic State’s news agency said. Amaq, ISIS media wing, said most of the victims were women and children in the attack on Tel al-Shayer village near the...

French President Emmanuel Macron's centrist party won a massive majority in parliamentary elections on Sunday, dominating the country's traditional forces in a dramatic re-drawing of the political map. Macron's year-old Republic on the Move (REM) and their allies were set to win between 355...

The U.S.-led coalition downed a Syrian army jet on Sunday in the southern Raqqa countryside during a Syrian combat mission against Islamic State militants, the Syrian army said. An army statement released on Syrian state television said the plane crashed and the pilot was missing. It said...

Iran fired missiles on Sunday into eastern Syria, aiming at the bases of militant groups it holds responsible for attacks in Tehran which left 18 dead last week, Iran's Tasnim news agency reported. Iranian Revolutionary Guards launched the mid-range ground-to-ground missiles from western...

Russia’s foreign ministry on Sunday said it regretted US President Donald Trump’s policy reversal on Cuba, calling it reminiscent of the Cold War era. “The new line towards Cuba announced by US President Donald Trump takes us back to already half-forgotten rhetoric in the style of the Cold...

( The New Arab )- Twenty-one employees of a Turkish catering firm providing food for soldiers were detained by authorities on Sunday, after allegedly poisoning more than 700 troops in the west of the country. The workers, who were employed with the catering contractor who supplied a meal of...