A suspected U.S. drone strike killed two men believed to be al-Qaeda militants in southern Yemen late on Friday, residents and local sources said. The strike took place in the al Naqba area of Shabwa province where residents heard a loud explosion that they say completely destroyed a vehicle...

Seven sailors are missing and three injured after a U.S. Navy destroyer collided early on Saturday morning with a Philippine-flagged container ship south of Tokyo Bay in Japan, the U.S. Navy said. The Japanese Coast Guard said the destroyer was experiencing some flooding but was not in...

Palestinian militant factions denied on Saturday a claim by ISIS that three Palestinian men who carried out a fatal shooting and stabbing attack in Jerusalem were members of the militant group. ISIS took responsibility for the attack on Friday, in which one Israeli police officer was killed...

The Iraqi army and Sunni tribal fighters have dislodged ISIS from the al-Waleed border crossing into Syria, an Iraqi military statement said on Saturday. Aircraft from the U.S.-led coalition and the Iraqi air force took part in the operation, the statement said. Read More: ...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Mother of Abdul Basset al-Sarout, a revolution Icon and vocal supporter, has demanded the former al Qaeda branch in Syria, to release her son  after two months of arbitrary arrest in northern Idlib province, activists told Zaman al-Wasl.   Haya’t Tahrir al-Sham,...

By Ethar Abdulhaq (Zaman Al Wasl)- The leaked Syrian regime intelligence archive showed that 187 arrest warrants were issued for Emirati citizens, 680 warrants for Kuwaiti citizens, 122 warrants issued for Bahraini citizens. The leaked intelligence archive contains 1 ,700,000...

About 100,000 civilians remain trapped behind Daesh (ISIS) lines in Mosul with a U.S.-backed government offensive to recapture the Iraqi city entering its ninth month, the United Nations refugee agency UNHCR said Friday. Daesh snipers are shooting at families trying to flee on foot or by boat...

 Israeli security forces shot dead three Palestinians who carried out shooting and stabbing attacks in which an Israeli border policewoman was killed in Jerusalem on Friday, police said. The attacks occurred simultaneously in two areas near the Damascus gate of Jerusalem's walled old...

The EU's powerful anti-trust regulator will decide a historic case against Google in the coming weeks that could see the Internet giant hit with a record fine, sources said on Friday. "We are heading towards a decision this summer," one source close to the matter told AFP on condition of...

Britain is likely to go into arduous talks on its exit from the European Union without a deal to keep Prime Minister Theresa May in power as negotiations with a Northern Irish "kingmaker" party grind into a second week. After a tumultuous week that pitched Britain into its deepest political...

A Saudi Arabian cleric placed by Riyadh and its allies on a blacklist of people they call terrorists linked to Qatar said he survived assassination by a suicide bomber in Syria on Friday. Abdullah al-Muhaysini appeared in an online video saying he was unhurt in the blast. "We got in the car...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)-  A U.S.-backed militia opened fire on displaced families were trying to reach their village in the northern countryside of Raqaa, leaving five people wounded, eyewitness said on Friday. Al-Snadeed, tribesmen militia and key unit in the Syrian Democratic Forces, has...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 30 regime army troops from the coastal city of Tartus have been killed in the last two weeks, activist told Zaman al-Wasl. The death toll included 9 officers, mostly killed in the Syrian desert, Daraa and Damascus suburbs, according to activists Mustafa...

Turkey's main opposition leader accused President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Friday of staging a "second coup" with the crackdown that followed last July's failed putsch, as he pressed on with a protest march to Istanbul from Ankara. Republican People's Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu...

With President Vladimir Putin in attendance and 44,000 tickets sold, Saturday's Confederations Cup opener will give Russia the chance to show off its preparations for next year's World Cup despite concerns over stadium security and infrastructure. World Cup holders Germany and the six...

The European Union on Friday stressed the need to coordinate with Washington after the U.S. Senate proposed new sanctions against Russia that have provoked a sharp response from Germany. "It is important for possible new measures to be coordinated between international partners to ensure...

The U.S. Senate's decision to impose new sanctions on Iran is an "unquestionable" violation of a nuclear deal reached in 2015 between Tehran and six major powers including the United States, Iranian media quoted a senior Iranian official as saying. The Senate approved on Thursday the...

The number of Islamist militants in Sweden has soared to thousands in recent years but only a few pose a security threat to society, the head of the country's security services said on Friday. Sweden is still in shock after five people were killed and 15 injured when a hijacked truck...

The death toll from the London tower block fire has risen to at least 30 and police are considering whether criminal offences had been committed, a senior police officer said on Friday. "We know that at least 30 people have died as a result of this fire," said Commander Stuart Cundy, adding...

 The U.N. children's agency is warning that a critical funding shortfall is threatening aid to 9 million Syrian children, both in their country and among the refugees in neighboring states. UNICEF says the $220 million budget gap to its Syria relief programs is the worst it has faced...