Multiple ISIS suicide bombers attacked a base in northern Iraq where U.S. military advisers are stationed, security sources said on Sunday. Two militants detonated their vests at the entrance to the K1 base overnight, and the remaining three were killed by Kurdish peshmerga forces who...

(Zaman Al Wasl)-The military police forces search and arrest young men from streets of Latakia to send them for mandatory conscription and military reserve service. Latakia News, pro-regime Facebook page, mentioned that patrols of the military police forces had arrested 17 young men by early...

Syrian regime forces and rebels clashed in the northwestern province of Hama on Friday shortly after a Russian-led deal to establish de-escalation zones took effect, a monitor and a rebel official said. Fighter jets fired at the rebel-held village of al-Zalakiyat and nearby positions in the...

A week of infighting killed nearly 169 people in the rebel-held Eastern Ghouta region outside Syria's capital Damascus before an uneasy returned Friday, activists said. The clashes erupted on April 28 between the powerful Army of Islam faction and the former Al-Qaeda affiliate Fateh al-Sham...

A de-escalation agreement in Syria will come into force from midnight tonight but Russia's air force will continue strikes against Islamic State elsewhere in the country, Russian news agencies cited the Defence Ministry as saying on Friday....

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The eighth batch of al-Waer neighborhood’s evacuees on Friday left the last rebel stronghold in Homs city, heading Jarablus town at the Turkish border due to an evacuation deal forced, till now, 13300 people to leave Homs in weekly batches, local reporter said. Thirty buses...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Heavy water has flooded half of a town in Raqqa province as they are working to prevent the flood from the northern part of the village (200 houses) towards the southern part using dust mounds installed on Raqqa countryside. The source said that the total area of the town and...

 Russia, Iran and Turkey on Thursday signed an agreement on setting up four safe zones in Syria that the United Nations described as a promising step to wind down the brutal six-year war. The United States however gave an extremely cautious welcome, citing concerns over Iran's role as a...

 By Ethar Abdulhaq (Zaman Al Wasl)- From the al-Nusra Front to Christianity, so did the case of a young Syrian identified himself as Hassan Abu Hamza became globalized through various media outlets circulating his news especially as the young man directed the story of his conversion to...

Thousands of south Yemenis demonstrated Thursday in support of a governor sacked by the president in a blow to his authority and his efforts to keep together a motley loyalist coalition. In his war with Shiite Muslim rebels who control the capital Sanaa and much of the north, President...

Russia, Turkey and Iran signed on Thursday a memorandum on creating safe zones in Syria, while the delegation of the armed Syrian opposition walked out and shouted angrily after a new round of peace talks held in the Kazakh capital Astana. Russia, Turkey and Iran act as guarantors of the...

Lionel Messi's appeal against a four-match ban in World Cup qualifying for insulting a referee's assistant was being heard by FIFA Thursday. Messi, who was to testify by video, is not expected to get an immediate verdict. The FIFA appeals panel typically gives a detailed verdict within...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said a Moscow-backed plan to set up so-called de-escalation zones inside Syria would "50 percent" solve the six-year conflict, in comments published Thursday. Erdogan Wednesday discussed with Russian President Vladimir Putin a plan floated by Moscow for...

French presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron accused his far-right rival Marine Le Pen Thursday of spreading lies by suggesting he had an undisclosed offshore fund. Macron's party said it was taking legal action after an internet campaign suggested shortly before a televised debate between...

Iraqi's oil ministry Thursday asked foreign companies and investors to bid for a project to build and operate a 300,000 barrel-per-day export-oriented refinery in Fao, near the southern city of Basra. Bidding documents provide for two investment models -- build-own-operate and...

Amazon (AMZN.O) launched deliveries of fresh groceries in Berlin and neighboring Potsdam on Thursday for members of its Prime subscription service, a move that could accelerate online sales of food that have been sluggish in Germany so far. Amazon said in a statement that Prime members can...

A Palestinian attempted to stab Israeli police near a flashpoint holy site in Hebron in the occupied West Bank Thursday and was shot and wounded, Israeli authorities said. The incident occurred near the site known to Muslims as the Ibrahimi Mosque and to Jews as the Cave of the Patriarchs in...

Algerians vote Thursday for a new parliament likely to hand a majority to the ruling FLN party and its allies, though turnout is traditionally low for elections to a National Assembly many voters dismiss as weak. The ballot comes at a sensitive time for Algeria as the OPEC member tackles the...

( The Guardian )- The government is considering holding a vote to expand military action in Syria if the Conservatives win a big enough majority in the general election. Theresa May is believed to want Commons backing in order to have the freedom to join the US in airstrikes against the forces...

North Korean and Chinese media were at loggerheads Thursday after Pyongyang's official news agency issued a rare and stinging denunciation of its chief ally and diplomatic backer. Beijing should be grateful to Pyongyang for its protection, said a bylined commentary carried by the Korean...