The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has threatened anyone showing sympathy with Qatar with up to 15 years in prison. State-run Albayan daily quoted Attorney General Hamad al-Shamsi saying that expressing sympathy to Qatar or opposing the decision to cut ties with Doha via social media or by writing...

 Human Rights Watch Wednesday condemned comments by British Prime Minister Theresa May vowing a hardline approach to terrorism, after the deadly London attacks and on the eve of a national election. Kenneth Roth, executive director of the New York-based group, took aim in particular at...

The EU unveiled an unprecedented plan for common defense spending Wednesday to help Europe stand alone as a global military power, while urging the United States under Donald Trump to remain on the world stage. The proposal by Brussels for a 5.5-billion-euro a year fund follows a...

The Kremlin Wednesday condemned gun and suicide bomb attacks in Tehran claimed by ISIS and called for greater coordination in the fight against the group. "Moscow decisively condemns such terrorist attacks," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said, adding that "the continuation of a series of...

Germany's cabinet Wednesday backed the withdrawal of troops from the Incirlik air base in southern Turkey, the German defense minister said, following Ankara's refusal to allow German lawmakers access to its soldiers there. Germany plans to move the 280 German soldiers to an air base in...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 8 civilians have been killed in suspected Russia air strikes on eastern Deir Ezzor province, local activists said Wednesday. The strike hit a van in al-Quriya village in the eastern countryside of Deir Ezzor. The Syrian Kurds, Iraqi militias and the...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- UN and Syrian regime delegates met with ISIS commanders in southern district of Damascus to seal an agreement allowing fighters of the radical group to leave the capital toward Syrian desert, well-informed sources said Wednesday. The long-awaited deal is due to...

France created a new counter-terrorism task force Wednesday comprised of all intelligence services that will coordinate responses to attacks, a day after a man carrying Algerian papers attacked police officers outside the Notre Dame cathedral. Newly-elected President Emmanuel Macron,...

Turkish authorities detained 60 soldiers Wednesday and issued detention orders for another 128 people in operations targeting the network of a Muslim cleric the government blames for last year's failed coup, local media reported. Some 50,000 people have been arrested since the failed putsch...

 ISIS claimed responsibility for attacks on Iran's parliament and Ayatollah Khomeini's shrine Wednesday, the group's state news agency AMAQ said. "Fighters from Islamic state attacked Khomeini's shrine and the Iranian parliament in Tehran," the news agency said. Read...

U.S.-backed fighters gained ground against ISIS in the streets of Raqqa Wednesday, their command said, a day after breaking into the extremist's Syrian bastion. The Syrian Democratic Forces have spent months advancing on the northern city and finally thrust into the eastern neighborhood of...

Attackers raided Iran’s parliament and opened fire at the Mausoleum of Ayatollah Khomeini a few kilometers south of the capital Wednesday morning, in near simultaneous assaults that killed up to seven people, media reported. Tasmin news agency said there were unconfirmed reports that the...

 British police Wednesday said a 30-year-old man had been arrested following the London Bridge terror attack which killed seven people and injured 48. Officers arrested him in the eastern London suburb of Ilford, near Barking, where two of the assailants lived. The Saturday attack...

The attack on a French police officer outside Paris's famed Notre Dame cathedral by a hammer-wielding man was an "isolated act," government spokesman Christophe Castaner said Wednesday. Tuesday's attacker had "never showed any sign of radicalization," he told RTL radio, but stressed that the...

( The New York Times )- The United States recently committed itself to arming the Kurdish People’s Protection Units, known as the Y.P.G., to help evict the Islamic State from its Syrian stronghold, Raqqa. This decision is likely to prove deeply troublesome, risking the regional stability...

South Korea will suspend any further deployment of a controversial U.S. missile defense system until an environmental impact assessment ordered by new President Moon Jae-In is finished, his office said Wednesday. Seoul agreed last year under Moon's ousted predecessor Park Geun-Hye to deploy...

By Naser Ali (Zaman Al Wasl)- Is Zain the Kuwaiti telecommunication company’s recent advertisement connecting Omran Dokneish, a Syrian child, with the scene of a suicide attack aimed at presenting the regime as innocent and blaming al-Qaeda and the Jihadist factions for all the violations...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- The U.S.-led coalition airstrikes have killed 20 ISIS fighters in the town of Albukamal on the Iraqi border as the radical group faces major attacks by the Syrian Kurds, Iraqi militias and the regime forces in eastern Syria, local monitoring group said Tuesday. The U.S....

Venezuelan opposition leaders on Tuesday accused security forces of assaulting and robbing demonstrators who participate in protests against President Nicolas Maduro. Two videos distributed over social networks appear to show police and troops taking protesters' possessions during rallies on...

The U.S. and Mexican governments reached a new agreement to significantly shift their sugar trade mix, but U.S. sugar producers have failed to endorse the deal, leaving question marks over whether it could still sour broader trade relations. U.S. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross said the...