Police in Singapore have detained a preschool assistant who shared pro-ISIS materials online and intended to travel to Syria, their first arrest of a female alleged sympathizer of the radical group. The Home Affairs Ministry said in a statement Monday that 22-year-old Syaikhah Izzah Zahrah...

( Middle East Eye )- "It's difficult to see how things won't get any worse; it's going to get a lot worse before it gets any better." That was the stark warning given to me by a senior official from the Middle East who was sent by his country's leader to try to mediate between Qatar and...

Hundreds of police were on standby in central Moscow on Monday to break up a planned mass protest organised by opposition leader Alexei Navalny against what he says is a corrupt system of rule overseen by Russian President Vladimir Putin. The scale of the protests will show if Navalny, who...

Reporting by Faris Rifai (Eqtsad)- The situation of Syrian refugees in Iraqi Kurdistan seems to be better than that of their peers in the neighboring countries of asylum, although they suffer from the material hardship that has been going on for years after the budget cut by...

German authorities say they've arrested four Syrian brothers on terrorism charges for allegedly fighting for an extremist group in their homeland five years ago. Mustafa K., 41, Abdullah K., 39, Sultan K., 44, and Ahmed K., 51, whose last names weren't released according to privacy...

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A Japanese defense official said Monday that Japan is seeking to increase its sales of military equipment to Southeast Asian nations amid growing tensions with China and North Korea. The move is part of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's push to bolster Japan's military role and its sales of...

Iran has tracked down and killed several suspected militants including the alleged mastermind of twin attacks in Tehran last week, a security official and a minister have said. Dozens of suspects have been arrested since the attacks on Wednesday killed 17 people in the first assault in Iran...

Suspected al-Qaeda militants launched a car-bomb and gun attack on an army camp in southeastern Yemen early on Monday, leaving at least 10 militants and two soldiers dead, a military official and residents said. The assault near the town of Baddah in oil-producing Hadramout province came...

The Syrian regime army and Iran-backed militia forces have escalated attacks against a rebel-held part of the southern city of Deraa, a possible prelude to a large-scale campaign to wrest full control of the city, rebels and residents said on Monday. The intensive raids and bombing strikes...

Turkish-backed rebels fought each other on Sunday in the Syrian town of al Bab in the first bout of rebel fighting since they seized the town this year from Islamic State militants, rebels and witnesses said. It was not clear what triggered the armed clashes between rival rebel groups who...

Pakistan's prime minister will appear before an anti-corruption investigation commission over allegations against his family, a government minister said Sunday. Nawaz Sharif and his children are accused of graft in an ongoing case which has gripped Pakistan and threatened to topple the prime...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- U.S.-led coalition air strikes on Raqqa killed 12 people, including 7 family members, as the Kurdish-led forces press new advances in the de facto capital of the radical group, local activists and Amaq news agency said. The strikes hit the neighborhood of...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Residents of Maarrat al-Numan in northern Idlib province on Sunday went to streets protesting the mounting abuses of Tahrir al-Sham, the powerful Islamist alliance that led by former al-Qaeda branch in Syria.  The protest followed tensions escalated last...

British Agriculture Minister Michael Gove, a pro-Brexit campaigner and former rival of Prime Minister Theresa May, said he was surprised by the invitation to join her cabinet on Sunday. "I was quite surprised, I have to say ... I genuinely didn't expect this role," Gove told Sky News. "I...

French voters cast their ballots on Sunday in the first round of a parliamentary election expected to give centrist President Emmanuel Macron the strong majority needed to carry out the far-reaching economic and social reforms he promises. The vote to elect the lower house's 577 members...

US-backed Syrian fighters seized a second district of Raqa on Sunday and launched a renewed assault on a base north of the city, as they pursued an offensive against the Islamic State group. The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) broke into Raqa earlier this week after announcing the start of a...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syria's Muslim Brotherhood issued a new national charter in light of the changes that have afflicted the Syrian revolution, stressing that this charter carries much of the future political project for Syria which the Muslim Brotherhood issued in 2004.  The General...

Thousands of protesters have taken to the streets of the Moroccan capital to protest against corruption and abuse of power. The demonstration in Rabat on Sunday was one of the largest of its kind for several years. Read More:  U.S.-led air strikes kill 31 people in Raqqa:...

Several thousand demonstrators including Pep Guardiola, the revered former manager of the city's football club, rallied in Barcelona Sunday to support the Catalonia independence referendum called for October 1. Carles Puigdemont, leader of the regional government, defied Madrid on Friday by...