( Daily Star )- U.S. President Donald Trump reaffirmed his vow to destroy the Islamic State group and "protect civilization" during a White House press conference on Wednesday. Speaking after talks with Jordan's King Abdullah, Trump predicted that the campaign against ISIS in Syria and Iraq...

( Reuters )- Akbarzhon Jalilov, the man suspected of blowing up a Russian metro train, represents a new wave of radical Islamists who blend into local society away from existing jihadist movements - making it harder for security forces to stop their attacks. His pages on the Russian...

( Reuters )- Russia denied on Wednesday that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad was to blame for a poison gas attack and said it would continue to back him, widening a rift between the Kremlin and Donald Trump's White House, which initially sought warmer ties. Western countries, including the...

( al-Araby al-Jadeed )- International donors pledged billions of dollars in aid for war-ravaged Syria as the UN Security Council convened on Wednesday for emergency talks over a suspected chemical attack that killed dozens in a rebel-held province. At a donor conference in Brussels, UN...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Iranian power generating ships expected to provide the coastal cities and towns with electrical power returned the way they came after Russia blocked an agreement to lease the coastal area of Wadi Qandil, north of Lattakia, for 99 years to Iran's Ministry of Defense. Zaman...

  (Zaman Al Wasl)- Prominent Free Syrian Army commander escaped Wednesday an assassination attempt in northern Idlib province where his comrade died in the gun-fire attack. Lieutenant Colonel Ahmed Saud, head of Division 13, was with 4 our senior commanders heading a meeting near Maerrit...

( Independent )- With this protracted war dragging its feet, the need for healthcare is perhaps greater in Syria than anywhere else in the world. Pictures of people convulsing and foaming at the mouth after an apparent poison gas attack this week leave us paralysed. The Syrian healthcare...

( Reuters )- A proposed United Nations resolution on a chemical weapons attack in Syria is "unacceptable" for Moscow, Russia's foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova was quoted by Interfax news agency as saying on Wednesday. "We do not believe it is expedient to pass a resolution on...

( Reuters )- Around 270,000 Syrians in Germany have the right to bring in their family members, a newspaper said Wednesday – a statistic that could fuel the debate about migration less than six months before a national election. Mass-selling tabloid Bild cited a government paper as...

( Al-Araby Al-Jadeed )- An earthquake measuring 6.1 on the Richter scale struck northeastern Iran near the holy city of Mashhad on Wednesday, killing at least two people as residents fled onto the streets and aftershocks shook the region. The epicentre of the quake appeared to be the Sefid Sang...

(The Washington Post)- Yet again, the world is watching gut-wrenching images emerge from the site of a suspected chemical weapons attack in Syria. Activists claim the Syrian government launched an airstrike on the town of Khan Sheikhoun in the country's northwestern Idlib province. Scores of...

Some victims of a suspected chemical attack in Syria have symptoms consistent with exposure to a category of chemicals that includes nerve agents, the World Health Organization said Wednesday. The UN health agency said the deadly attack in Idlib province Tuesday appeared to have involved...

Arab League chief Ahmed Aboul Gheit said on Wednesday that a suspected chemical weapons attack on a rebel-held town in Syria that killed 72 people was "a major crime." "Targeting and killing civilians with these prohibited methods is considered a major crime and a barbaric act," Aboul Gheit...

( al-Araby al-Jadeed )- Russia defended its ally Damascus on Wednesday in the face of an international outcry over a chemical attack that killed scores of civilians in the rebel-held town of Khan Sheikhun, saying a Syrian airstrike hit a "terrorist warehouse". "According to the objective...

( The New Arab )- All evidence points to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad being behind the chemical weapons attack which left more than 70 dead in a rebel-held town, British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson said on Wednesday. "All the evidence I have seen suggests this was the Assad regime......

At least 31 people were killed, including 14 police officers, and more than 40 wounded in attacks overnight by ISIS militants in the northern Iraqi city of Tikrit, security and medical sources said on Wednesday. The militants wore police uniforms and used a police vehicle to enter the city,...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- A woman and two children have been killed and eight more wounded in the northeastern province of Hasaka province as heavy clashes still underway between US-led Syrian Democratic Forces and ISIS near al-Shaddadi town, activists said. Hasaka-based activist Ahmad al-Ali said...

 North Korea test-fired a ballistic missile into the sea off its east coast on Wednesday, South Korea's military said, ahead of a summit between U.S. and Chinese leaders who are set to discuss Pyongyang's increasingly defiant arms program. The missile flew about 60 km (40 miles) from...

Warplanes mounted five air strikes on Wednesday in a rebel-held area of northwestern Syria where dozens of people were killed the day before in a suspected chemical attack, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported. The Syrian army could not immediately be reached for comment on...

A Kuwaiti military plane entered Iraqi airspace, Baghdad said on Tuesday, allegedly causing fear among residents in the area. The military jet flew above Safwan in the southern governorate of Basra, local reports said. Kuwait is among the nations currently hosting military drills in the...