(Zaman Al Wasl)- A US-led airstrike killed first aide of Abu Baker al-Baghdadi, the self-proclaimed caliph of the Islamic State, the group’s news feeds said Thursday. Ben Ali was also known as Abu Sufyan al-Selmi and Abu Humama al-Athari, according to the leaked ISIS data which obtained...

Turkey's military killed six members of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) in air strikes in northern Iraq on Thursday, the army said in a statement. Turkish warplanes hit the Avasin-Basyan region in northern Iraq, killing PKK militants believed to be in preparation of an attack, the...

An oil tanker has come under fire off Yemen while passing through the strategic Bab al-Mandab strait into the Red Sea, a Saudi-led coalition supporting the Yemeni government said Thursday. The shipping lane connecting the Indian Ocean with the Suez Canal and the Mediterranean beyond is a key...

Hillary Clinton went a step further Wednesday in blaming her election loss to Donald Trump on Russian cyberattacks, saying Americans including associates of the Republican president likely had a hand in the effort. The Democratic nominee in last year's bitterly fought White House race...

South African paramedics say a train driver was killed and 50 other people were injured in a train collision at a station near Johannesburg. Paramedic company ER24 described the injuries in the accident at Elandsfontein on Thursday as "minor to moderate." It said in a statement that injured...

Russia said on Thursday it was systematically bombing any ISIS militants trying to flee Syria's Raqqa and had carried out two such bombing runs in the last week. A U.S.-led coalition is supporting an alliance of Kurdish and Arab militias in their campaign to capture Raqqa city, ISIS'urban...

President Donald Trump, who blasted Hillary Clinton for using a personal email server, might be a walking magnet for eavesdropping and malware if he is using an unsecured cellphone to chat with foreign leaders. Trump has been handing out his cellphone number to counterparts around the world,...

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi was quick to launch air strikes on militants in Libya in response to a deadly attack on Coptic Christians in Egypt - but the attacks do not seem to be targeting those responsible. The response was popular with many Egyptians. The country's state-owned...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)-  At least 25 regime troops and allied Shiite militants were killed on Wednesday in fierce clashes with Western-backed rebels in a region of Syria's southeastern desert, known as al-Badia, opposition media outlets said.    Jaish Osoud al-Sharqiya, one...

By Nouri Badi (Zaman Al Wasl)- Mohammad Abed al-Manan Abdou, an elderly man in his 70s, did not expect that he would be killed with his wife, Salam Rashouh, and his grandson, Mohammed, in a US-led coalition airstrike.  Abdou and his family had been living under the...

By Abdullah Gadawi   (Zaman Al Wasl)- Badr Jamous, member of the  political commission in the  National Coalition said the key opposition group is at a pivotal stage, calling on all members to moblize efforts to preserve this political entity which is recognized...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The Syrian Women's Association held their founding conference in the town of Ma'arat al-Nu'man in northern Idlib province this week including 35 women representing various women's centers operating in the province. During the conference, an Association president, deputy...

Anguished Afghans scoured hospitals and morgues in Kabul Wednesday, sifting through disfigured and charred bodies for missing relatives after a catastrophic truck bombing left at least 90 people dead and hundreds wounded. The bomb, hidden inside a sewage tanker, detonated close to the...

For about four years Sarah has gone around her community in the Bekaa Valley in eastern Lebanon speaking with fellow female Syrian refugees who have been victims of sexual violence, comforting them and telling them about local services. Her advice comes from the heart - having being raped...

White House spokesman Sean Spicer declined on Wednesday to say whether President Donald Trump has decided to withdraw from the Paris Accord to fight climate change, despite reports indicating that he would pull out of the global deal. Asked whether Trump planned to remove the United States...

Turkey's National Security Council said on Wednesday that the U.S. government's decision to arm the Syrian Kurdish YPG militia in Syria was "not befitting" of a friend. In a statement released after a 4-1/2-hour meeting chaired by President Tayyip Erdogan, the council said Turkey's...

  (Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 7 people from the same family have been killed Wednesday in the US-led coalition airstrikes on Raqqa city, as its allied Kurdish fighters reached the northern entrance of the city, the activist-operated Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently said. The intense...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The opposition’s National Coalition on Wednesday has suspended the membership of the military council and has agreed on 12 rebel factions to be representened in the once Syria's key opposition group. The newly-elected chairman of the National Coalition, Riad Seif, seeks to...

Forces backed by the United Arab Emirates have taken over the airport in the southern city of Aden, according to Yemeni security officials, further fueling tension between internationally recognized President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi and the UAE. The officials said that one soldier from among...

A newspaper in Siberia said on Wednesday it was threatened with retribution after reporting the death in Syria of a Russian private military contractor. The story, in the Courier.Sreda.Berdsk newspaper, said that the 36-year-old man, Yevgeny Tretyakov, had been killed in Syria's Homs...