Tunisian security forces have killed a leader of ISIS who was plotting attacks during the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan, authorities said Monday. The interior ministry did not identify the suspect, but said he was a leading member of ISIS and "dangerous" and was killed in an operation...

( Al-Monitor )- Hamidreza Azizi explains that the Russian proposal for de-escalation or safe zones in Syria “is not only the best approach for Moscow and Tehran to preserve their core interests in the country, but it could also act as a factor that brings the two countries even closer together.”...

Tens of thousands of civilians in parts of Mosul held by ISIS are struggling to get food, water and medicine, the United Nations said, days into a new push by U.S.-backed Iraqi government troops to take the northern city. Up to 200,000 people still live behind ISIS lines in Mosul's Old City...

(Eqtsad)- The Turkish authorities frequently issue new resolutions aimed at improving the situation of some three million Syrian refugees living in its territory.  These resolutions include, but are not limited to, the decision to grant work permits to Syrians present under the...

  (Zaman Al Wasl)- US-led coalition warned Syrian regime forces and its allied Shiite militias from advancing further to the border area with Iraq under control of moderate rebels, commander told Zaman al-Wasl Monday. The US warplanes dropped leaflets on regime bastions and an Iraqi...

 (Zaman A Wasl)-  Three Hezbollah officials were killed on Sunday in a car accident in Lebanon on the Bint Jbail-Tayriyeh subhway amid claims of assassination act, Lebanese news feed said Janoubia news site, a critical media outlet to Hezbollah, assured that the deaths...

Protesters have rallied for a third night running in Morocco's city of Al-Hoceima, in a northern region of the country where there has been growing social unrest. An AFP journalist saw several hundred mainly young demonstrators gathered in two neighborhoods of the city Sunday night, chanting...

( The Guardian )- Secretary of Defense James Mattis said on Sunday the US had “accelerated” its tactics against the Islamic State, moving from a policy of “attrition” to one of “annihilation”. The retired Marine Corps general also said “civilian casualties are a fact of life in this sort of...

Britain's MI5 is to hold an inquiry into how it dealt with public warnings that the Manchester suicide bomber Salman Abedi posed a potential threat, the BBC reported Monday. MI5 was alerted to Abedi's extremist views at least three times, the BBC said. It is highly unusual for British...

Warplanes carried out three airstrikes on the Libyan city of Derna Monday, a witness said, days after Egypt launched strikes on militant camps there against those it said were responsible for killing Egyptian Christians. On Friday, Egyptian fighter jets struck Derna just hours after masked...

French President Emmanuel Macron's party is expected to emerge with the most seats in June's parliamentary election, a poll showed Monday, with Macron also scoring well in terms of general popularity. The Odoxa poll for France Inter radio and L'Express magazine said Macron's start-up...

A White House in crisis scrambled to allay public concern over reports that Donald Trump's son-in-law sought a secret communications link to Russia -- a bombshell allegation the U.S. president swatted down as "fabricated." After returning late Saturday from his first foreign trip as...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Sunday urged European Union nations to stick together in the face of emerging policy divisions with the U.S., Britain's decision to leave the bloc and other challenges. Speaking at a campaign event held in a Bavarian beer tent, Merkel suggested that the G-7...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- U.S.-led coalition has stepped up its aerial campaign on Raqqa city in suppoart of Kurdish militia days before launching major offensive to expel ISIS from the de facto capital of the caliphate. Local monitoring group, Raqaa Is being Slaughtered Silently said coalition...

Iraq's Iran-backed Shi'ite paramilitary force said on Sunday it had dislodged Islamic State from a number of villages west of Mosul, scoring further progress toward the border with Syria. The villages taken by the Popular Mobilisation paramilitary force include Kojo, where Islamic State...

 British police said on Sunday they had arrested a 14th person in connection with the Manchester suicide bombing, and were searching a property in the south of the city. The 25-year-old man was arrested in the southwest of Manchester "on suspicion of offences contrary to the terrorism...

Algeria's President Abdelaziz Bouteflika sacked his tourism minister Sunday days after he was appointed to the post, the presidency said, with one television channel claiming he had a criminal record. A terse statement from the presidency, carried by the APS news agency, did not say why...

The head of Palestinian Islamic courts on Sunday told judges not to grant divorces over Ramadan, fearing the month-long fast could spark rash words that would be regretted later. Judge Mahmud Habash said he based his ruling on "the experience of previous years" when he found that the...

U.S. Homeland Security John Kelly said Sunday that he was considering banning laptop computers on international flights into and out of the country, amid signs of "a real threat." Kelly made his remarks during the Memorial Day weekend, one of the busiest travel periods in the U.S., and at a...

 U.S. President Donald Trump, who was uncharacteristically quiet on Twitter during his nine-day trip abroad, resumed his favorite past-time Sunday with a tweet storm in which he thundered against "fake news." "It is my opinion that many of the leaks coming out of the White House are...