A medical relief advocacy groups says over 100 hospitals in Syria were hit by Syrian or Russian airstrikes last year, urging the "fortification" of medical facilities such as by adding reinforced concrete or blast-resistant windows. In a 90-page report released Saturday, the International...

A Beijing-backed civil servant, Carrie Lam, was chosen to be Hong Kong's next leader on Sunday amid accusations that Beijing is meddling and denying the financial hub a more populist leader perhaps better able to defuse political tension. The majority of the China-ruled city's 7.3 million...

The day after the flaming out of U.S. President Donald Trump's first major legislative initiative, his supporters across America were lashing out - at conservatives, at Democrats, at leaders of his Republican Party in Congress. Only Trump himself was spared their wrath. Many voters who...

A US drone strike in eastern Afghanistan on March 19 killed the senior Al-Qaeda military commander Qari Yasin, who has been linked to numerous attacks in his native Pakistan, the US military confirmed on Saturday. "The death of Qari Yasin is evidence that terrorists who defame Islam and...

The target is behind a slope, the advance is unprotected: crawl, fire! Italian instructors in western Afghanistan have been using the relatively quiet winter to bolster Afghan troops against the Taliban. The war-torn country's security forces are being killed in horrific numbers as they...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime has prevented medication supplies to the National Hospital of Hasaka after controlling it by the Democratic Union Party which invested it to obtain money from patients for the service it provided to them. Sources close to Hasaka Governor, Jayez al-Moosa reported...

The United Nations' Syria envoy sent an urgent appeal Saturday to Russia, Iran and Turkey seeking help to restore a cease-fire, warning that escalating violence was threatening peace talks in Geneva. U.N. mediator Staffan de Mistura sent letters to Moscow and Tehran – which back the Damascus...

The U.S. military acknowledged for the first time Saturday that it launched an airstrike against the Islamic State last week in the densely packed Iraqi city of Mosul where residents say more than 100 people were killed. “An initial review of strike data … indicates that, at the request of...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday lashed out again in the diplomatic row with the European Union saying it would be "easier" if the EU just rejected Turkey's bid to join the bloc. Turkey and Europe are locked in a bitter dispute after Germany and the Netherlands blocked...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The municipality of the Lebanese Kherbit Dawood town in Akkar province has issued an order to close all camps and collections of Syrians in the town's boundaries within 3 months. A order to closing all camps and collections of Syrians in Kherbit Dawood town was faced with...

Sixteen rebels have been killed and 24 wounded in 24 hours of air raids by a Saudi-led coalition targeting the insurgents in Yemen, a military official and medics said Saturday. The Huthi rebels were killed in airstrikes on an air base and arms depot in the east of the rebel-held Hudaida...

Egyptian security officials say a roadside bomb planted by suspected Islamic militants has hit a police armored vehicle in the north of the Sinai peninsula, killing three members of the security forces. They say the Saturday blast south of the city of el-Arish injured six other policemen....

Once home to a family of Syrian refugees, a U.N. tent has found a new life as a dress still bearing the marks and stains of its past. "Dress for Our Time," the brainchild of fashion designer Helen Storey, has turned a discarded tent from the Zaatari refugee camp in Jordan into a hooded dress...

More than 200,000 people have fled fighting in west Mosul since the operation to retake the area from extremists was launched last month, Iraq's ministry of migration and displaced said Saturday. The battle for west Mosul -- the most populated urban area still held by ISIS -- was launched on...

At least 17 civilians including women and children were killed Saturday in a Syrian regime airstrike east of the capital Damascus, according to a pro-opposition civil defense official. The source, who wished to remain anonymous due to security concerns, said the attack, which targeted...

A non-profit organization that tracks civilian casualties caused by airstrikes in the Middle East said it has shifted nearly all of its resources to track a surge of claims regarding U.S.-led strikes in Syria and Iraq. The group, called Airwars.org, had been tracking deaths caused by both...

Spain remained well on course to book their place at the World Cup in Russia as David Silva conducted another clinical win over Israel, cementing the 2010 world champions' upturn in fortunes under Julien Lopetegui. After the routine 4-1 win in Gijon Friday the former goalkeeper is unbeaten...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 8 people, including 5 family members, were killed Saturday in renewed airstrikes on the town of Khan Sheikhoun to increase the death toll to 24 in a day of bombing on Idlib province. Rescuing Civil Defense group said 5 family members, including two children, and three...

 Iraqi government forces paused in their push to recapture western Mosul from ISIS militants Saturday because of the high rate of civilian casualties, a security forces spokesman said. Residents escaping the besieged area have told of Iraqi and U.S.-led coalition airstrikes demolishing...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least three civilians have been killed in car bomb attack rocked the town of Azaz at the Turkish border, local reporter said Saturday. The car was parked near the main bus station of the strategic town in the northern countryside of Aleppo province. Ten more people were...