Jordan has broken its treaty obligations by hosting Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir, who is wanted by the International Criminal Court, U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad al Hussein said in a statement Friday. "I very much regret that Jordan, a state party to the...

A U.S.-backed offensive to capture the Syrian city of Raqqa from ISIS will last a number of months, the operation's commander said, a longer timeframe than previously signalled by the Kurdish YPG militia that is at the heart of the campaign. Rojda Felat spoke to Reuters near the Taqba Dam...

Philippine media organisations have hit back at President Rodrigo Duterte for an expletive-laden speech that lashed out at a domestic newspaper and a television network, saying threats would not stop journalists from reporting the truth. In two separate televised speeches Thursday, Duterte...

United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres Friday called on the international community to increase aid to help people fleeing the Iraqi city of Mosul which government forces have been battling to retake from ISIS. Iraqi forces have seized back most of the country's second-largest...

Three suspected al-Qaeda members were killed overnight in what local officials believed was a U.S. drone strike in southern Yemen. Residents and local officials said Friday the attack took place in Mozno in al-Wadie district of Abyan province. The three killed included the local leader of...

 The Russian-backed Syrian army has recaptured 16 villages lost to insurgents last week near the city of Hama, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported on Friday. Syrian government forces have been counter-attacking in the area that is of critical importance to President Bashar...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Turkey has changed its borders with Syria in many sites in northern of the country, it is not clear if the act is only limited to some sites , or it is along the Turkish-Syrian borders. Hundreds of meters of Syrian land have been included in the Turkish territory by changing...

U.S. President Donald Trump will sign executive orders on Friday aimed at identifying abuses that are causing massive U.S. trade deficits and clamping down on non-payment of anti-dumping and anti-subsidy duties on imports, his top trade officials said. The orders come as Trump prepares for...

EU president Donald Tusk Friday revealed his plans for Brexit talks, rejecting British Prime Minister Theresa May's demands for talks on the divorce and a future relationship to start in parallel. The draft guidelines obtained by AFP called for a "phased approach" that prioritizes an orderly...

A Japanese whaling fleet returned to port Friday after an annual Antarctic hunt that killed more than 300 of the mammals as Tokyo pursues the programme in defiance of global criticism. The fleet set sail for the Southern Ocean in November, with plans to slaughter 333 minke whales, flouting a...

(The Guardian)- President Trump told a group of senators this week that the US military was “doing very well” in Iraq. “The results are very, very good,” Trump said. The families of the hundreds of innocents who have been killed in US airstrikes since Trump became president might disagree....

 An explosion hit the Pakistani city of Parachinar, in the remote northwestern tribal region, Friday, killing at least five people and wounding 40, Ikramullah Khan, the local political agent, said. Earlier this year, at least 21 people were killed when an explosion hit a vegetable...

Despite using state-of-the-art weaponry, the U.S.-led coalition fighting ISIS in Iraq appears unable to avoid civilian casualties as it battles the extremists in close urban combat. The coalition is backing Iraqi forces in the battle to push out ISIS from west Mosul, a maze of narrow and...

German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble told a German newspaper the European Union should take a tough stance in negotiations with Britain over its exit from the bloc after more than 40 years of membership. British Prime Minister Theresa May Wednesday formally notified Brussels of...

The United States' diplomatic policy on Syria for now is no longer focused on making the war-torn country's president, Bashar al-Assad, leave power, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations said on Thursday, in a departure from the Obama administration's initial and public stance on Assad's...

The White House has invited the top Republican and Democratic members of the Senate and House of Representatives intelligence panels to review new material relevant to their investigation into Russia's alleged interference in the U.S. presidential election, White House spokesman Sean Spicer said...

The U.S. State Department and the White House are sending contradictory messages on Syria and should start leading and not focus exclusively on fighting ISIS, Syrian opposition member Farah al-Atassi told reporters in Geneva on Thursday. Atassi, a member of the High Negotiations...

Three alleged international human traffickers who are suspected of smuggling recruits for ISIS and helping to finance the group have been arrested in a town on Kenya's coast, police said Thursday. Police spokesman George Kinoti said the two Kenyans and a Somali were arrested Monday in the...

 ISIS claimed responsibility on Thursday for two suicide attacks that killed at least 31 people in Damascus on March 15. The group made the claim in its weekly online newspaper al-Nabaa. The newspaper said the two suicide bombers, identified by the group as Abu Musa al Golani and...

On west Mosul's Baghdad street, thousands of displaced Iraqis flee the fighting with their meagre belongings but similar numbers walk in the other direction, heading straight back into the war-torn city. The street is currently the main corridor for civilians fleeing the battle between the...