Pushing carts loaded with bags, babies and the elderly, hundreds of people fled Mosul Saturday after Iraqi forces retook two more districts in the west of the city from ISIS. After walking for miles, families were taken by bus from a government checkpoint in the south of the city to camps...

Russian authorities said Saturday security forces had killed two armed militants who had been trained by ISIS and were planning a series of "terrorist crimes", Russian news agencies reported. The National Anti-Terror Committee said the two men had been killed in the Stavropol region of...

 By Ethar Abdulhaq (Zaman Al Wasl)- With the recent Paris attack, the title of “Belgian [al-Belgiki]” has taken huge space in newspapers and on television screens. The attack comes to reaffirm theories that Belgium is the hotspot and corridor for all European jihadists. It comes to...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian rebels on Saturday have engaged in fierce fighting with  regime forces and allied militias in Hama province as regime seeks to expand its territory along the strategic western highway between Damascus and Aleppo. The regime forces that advanced into the strategic...

Two Saudis were among a mainly Qatari hunting party freed after a 16-month hostage ordeal in Iraq, Saudi media reported Saturday. The 26 hunters, initially believed to all be Qataris, were flown to Doha Friday after being handed over to Iraqi authorities. Jeddah-based newspaper Okaz...

Turkey's justice minister slammed the main opposition party Saturday for contesting the outcome of Sunday's referendum on expanding presidential powers and said there is no judicial path to reverse the ruling. In a series of tweets, Justice Minister Bekir Bozdag said all decisions on...

Pushing carts loaded with bags, babies and the elderly, hundreds of people fled Mosul Saturday after Iraqi forces retook another district in the west of the city from ISIS. After walking for miles, families were taken by bus from a government checkpoint in the south of the city to camps...

( Middle East Eye )- At the recent Syria conference which drew world leaders to Brussels to discuss how to support the refugees in the country, Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri – on his first official European tour during his third stint as prime minister - discussed how they had negatively...

 Venezuela braced for new marches Saturday against President Nicolas Maduro, after the death toll climbed to 20 in three weeks of violence at protests demanding the leftist leader's ouster. The opposition called for protesters to march in silence to the Catholic Church's episcopal seats...

Denuclearisation of the Korean peninsula can still be achieved peacefully because of Washington's new engagement with China, U.S. Vice President Mike Pence said on Saturday, despite growing fears North Korea could soon conduct a new nuclear test. South Korea is on heightened alert ahead of...

( The Guardian )- The United States has announced that a secret military ground operation killed an Islamic State operative seen as a close associate of leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and linked to an attack on a Turkish nightclub that left 39 people dead. Abdurakhmon Uzbeki, who was believed...

(Zaman Al Wasl) “Why are you holding us accountable for killing civilians in Syria, and you are killing them in Mosul? We will do the same as you,” said the regime Foreign Minister Walid al-Moallem to a low-ranking US official. The bluntness of al-Moallem’s comment is not strange as he said at...

US supercarrier Carl Vinson will arrive in the Sea of Japan in days, Vice President Mike Pence said Saturday, on a visit to Australia aimed at mending fences following a testy first call between the countries' leaders. Pence sought to put to rest the surly telephone conversation between US...

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov voiced "regret" in a phone call with his U.S. counterpart Friday at Washington's opposition to a Moscow-backed plan to investigate an alleged chemical attack in Syria. In the call with Secretary of State Rex Tillerson which "took place at U.S....

U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said on Friday that Syria had dispersed its warplanes in recent days and that it retained chemical weapons, an issue he said would have to be taken up diplomatically. The United States launched dozens of missiles earlier this month against a Syrian air base...

(Zaman Al Wasl)-  Powerful Kurdish PYD militia has carried out major conscription campaign in Hasaka province as the U.S.-allied group is mobilizing troops to expel ISIS from last pockets in northern Syria, local activists said. Hundreds of young men have been transferring to conscription...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Spokesman for powerful Hayat Tahrir al-Sham Islamist group said the Syrian opposition had not involved in direct talks with Iran-allied Shiite militias over the Qatari hunting party who was kidnapped in southern Iraq in 2015 and released on Friday. Imad el-Din Mujahed said the...

( The Guardian )- Syrian families are naming their children Putin as a mark of gratitude for the Russian president’s support for his Syrian counterpart in the six-year war, a government official has said. The Syrian ambassador in Moscow, Riyad Haddad, said Bashar al-Assad had also made...

The gutting of US-funded climate science would cripple research agendas worldwide and hamper the global fight against climate change, say scientists outside the United States, some of whom will take to the streets Saturday to make that point. US President Donald Trump has called for drastic...

Novak Djokovic was knocked out of the Monte Carlo Masters in the quarter-finals on Friday, losing 6-2, 3-6, 7-5 to Belgium's David Goffin. Goffin will play either nine-time champion Rafael Nadal or Argentina's Diego Schwartzman for a place in Sunday's final....