Chancellor Angela Merkel said refugees in Germany must respect tolerance, openness and freedom of religion, while senior members of her party called for a ban on foreign funding of mosques. Merkel, who will seek a fourth term as chancellor in what is expected to be a tight election in...

The annual Oxford-Cambridge boat race will proceed as planned Sunday after police removed an unexploded World War II-era bomb found near the start of the race on the River Thames. The bomb was discovered by a member of the public near Putney Bridge in southwest London, just meters (yards)...

By Jesse Rosenfeld (The Nation)-  The rattle of tracer fire jolts a cellphone camera resting in the gun hole of an upper-level apartment on a shelled-out east Aleppo street. Moments after the Hezbollah fighter has fired incendiary ammunition into the neighborhood below, it’s enveloped in...

U.S. backed Syrian forces repelled a major counter-attack by ISIS militants holding out at the country's largest dam and in the nearby town of Tabqa, the group and activists said Sunday. The dam is a key strategic target in the military campaign to isolate and capture the Syrian city of...

A senior United Nations refugee official on Sunday called on Gulf Arab states to give more to help Syrians displaced by six years of civil war, saying she saw little sign that the crisis would end any time soon. Speaking during a visit to Kuwait to sign a $10 million aid agreement for Syrian...

 France's polling commission has issued a warning over a Russian news report suggesting conservative candidate Francois Fillon leads the race for the presidency - something which contradicts the findings of mainstream opinion pollsters. The cautionary note from the watchdog on...

The U.S. ambassador to the United Nations says there's no question Russia was involved in the U.S. presidential election and that the actions of the Kremlin will be addressed after the investigations are completed. "We don't want any country involved in our elections, ever," Nikki Haley said...

The speaker of South Africa's parliament said on Sunday she would consider a request from opposition parties to hold a no confidence vote on President Jacob Zuma. Baleka Mbete, who is also the national chairperson of the ruling African National Congress (ANC), made the remarks in a televised...

A leader in ISIS' Egyptian affiliate was killed in an air raid last month, the Egyptian military said Sunday. "Following the results of the air raid on March 18... and upon the security apparatus's investigation, it was revealed that Salem Salmy al-Hamadeen, Aka Abu Anas al-Ansari, was...

A regular poll of German voters shows the nationalist Alternative for Germany party slipping further amid infighting in its ranks, while Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservative bloc and its main challenger, the Social Democrats, remain in a dead heat. The Emnid Sunday poll for the Bild...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian rebels thwarted a major offensive by regime army and its allies on the town of Halfaya in central Hama province, activists said Sunday. Pro-Assad Sputnik news site said Bashar al-Assad's forces backed by aerial and ground bombardment seek Halfaya capture to push rebels...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Four children from the same family were killed Sunday when the Russian fighter jets hit Urum al-Kubra town in rebel-held western Aleppo countryside, local Coordination Committees said. The attack on Oroom al-Kubra has also left one man killed and three people wounded. The...

Spain has said it would not "initially" veto an attempt by an independent Scotland to join the European Union after Britain has left the bloc, its foreign minister said in interview with Spanish newspaper El Pais. Spain has long been seen as an obstacle to an independent Scotland joining the...

Late last year, two American Marxists traveled to northeastern Syria with the goal of experiencing firsthand the egalitarian utopia Syria’s Kurds are seeking to build. Instead, they found themselves fighting on the front lines of a war, against the Islamic State and alongside the agents of...

Incessant rains Sunday halted the search for at least two dozen people missing after a landslide swept into a village on Indonesia's main island of Java. Four excavators working under cloudy skies dredged the mud, sand and rocks, piling the debris up to 20 meters (66 feet) high. Chief of...

Iraq has assured OPEC it will fully comply with an agreement to cut oil supply in order to bolster crude prices, OPEC Secretary General Mohammed Barkindo said Sunday. Compliance with the deal agreed by OPEC and non-OPEC producers at the end of last year to cut supply is "encouraging",...

Jets believed to be Russian hit an outpost run by moderate rebel forces in northwestern Syria near a major border crossing with Turkey, killing at least one fighter and wounding several people, two rebel sources said Sunday. They said several raids overnight hit Babeska, a village in Idlib...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The third batch of al-Waer neighborhood's evacuees have arrived to the northern province of Idlib early Sunday in almost one-day road trip, local reporter said. About 1600 people, including 358 women and 443 children, deported on Saturday from Wear neighborhood due to an...

(Daily Mail)- A 15-year-old Syrian schoolgirl has been given permission by the German authorities to marry the father of her baby in the latest example of migrant child brides. The authorities in Dusseldorf have decided it is acceptable for the girl to begin 'married life' with her...

AFP's photographer in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi, Abdullah Doma, was detained late Saturday for the second time in several days by security services there, his family said. Doma had been released Wednesday night after being held for 24 hours over his coverage of a public concert to...