Gunmen opened fire in the Libyan capital on Friday as hundreds of people demonstrated against the presence of militias in Tripoli, where armed groups are key power brokers, witnesses said. There were no immediate reports of casualties and the identities of the gunmen were not clear, but the...

 Israeli warplanes struck several targets in Syria early Friday, prompting retaliatory missile launches, in the most serious incident between the two countries since the Syrian civil war began six years ago. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the strikes targeted weapons bound...

President Trump refused to back off his unfounded allegations that former president Barack Obama last year wiretapped his phones in Trump Tower when asked about the subject during a joint news conference Friday with German chancellor Angela Merkel. After a German reporter asked Trump about...

Moroccan authorities said on Friday they had arrested 15 people suspected of ties with ISIS in the latest raid officials say targetted militant networks. The suspects had been active in Casablanca, Marrakech, Tangiers, and Agadir, among other cities, and were involved in inciting or...

 Friday prayers were cancelled in rebel-held parts of northern Syria after an airstrike that struck a crowded mosque, killing at least 40 people and wounded many others, Syrian opposition activists said. A powerful Syrian opposition group and other opposition activists blamed the...

Belgium Friday opened a tender for the replacement of its ageing U.S.-built F-16 jet fighter fleet, a contract potentially worth 15 billion euros over its 40-year lifespan. "The current 54 F-16 fighters will be replaced by 34 new multi-role aircraft," the ministry of defense said, arguing...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Hundreds of  people rallied across Syria on Friday commemorating the 6th anniversary of the Syrian Revolution. Activists surfaced on social media videos of a demonstration in Marret al-Nu'man in the southern countryside of Idlib, where the prominent vocal supporter and...

German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel questioned how Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan would know that an arrested German-Turkish journalist was a spy before he went on trial. Relations between Ankara and Berlin have been strained in recent weeks after Deniz Yucel, a journalist for German...

 Liverpool should not be considered favorites when they travel to face Manchester City in the Premier League on Sunday, manager Juergen Klopp said on Friday, despite his side's impressive record against teams near the top of the table. The Merseyside club are unbeaten against the other...

The head of the Syrian Kurdish YPG militia said a U.S.-backed assault to drive Islamic State from its de-facto capital Raqqa would begin at the start of April and the YPG would be taking part, despite fierce opposition from neighboring Turkey. A spokesman for the U.S. Pentagon, Navy...

A federal judge should let President Donald Trump's travel ban apply to a Syrian family trying to relocate to Wisconsin, U.S. Justice Department attorneys argue in a new court filing. The case involves a Syrian man who fled the war-torn country in 2014 and settled in Wisconsin. He's been...

Iran dismissed as "nonsense" comments made after U.S. Defense Secretary James Mattis met with Saudi Deputy Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman that condemned Tehran's destabilizing regional influence, state news agency IRNA reported on Friday. Mattis and Prince Mohammed, who is the kingdom's...

Donald Trump hosts Germany's Angela Merkel at the White House Friday, a meeting delayed by a snowstorm and still clouded by a storm of words between the two ostensible allies. The cautious German chancellor and the impulsive U.S. president will hold talks in the Oval Office, hoping to narrow...

Turkey's Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu has threatened to "blow the mind" of Europe by sending 15,000 refugees a month to EU territory, in an intensifying dispute with the bloc. Ankara and Brussels almost a year ago on March 18 signed a landmark deal that has substantially lessened the...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- The Syrian regime army and its allies on Friday launched new attack to capture rebel-held pocket northeast the capital, as aerial and ground bombing extend on the eastern suburbs of Damascus. Rebels of Barza Farms said they had thwarted the major attack, destroying two...

Israeli warplanes struck several targets in Syria early Friday, prompting retaliatory missiles launches, in the most serious incident between the two countries since the Syrian civil war began six years ago. Syria's military said it had downed an Israeli plane and hit another as they were...

Three quarters of French voters want conservative candidate Francois Fillon to pull out of the presidential race, an opinion poll by Odoxa showed Friday, underscoring how badly his image has been hit by a series of financial scandals. The former prime minister was placed under formal...

Thirty-one Somali refugees were killed off the coast of Yemen late Thursday when a helicopter attacked the boat they were travelling in, a local coast guard in the Houthi-controlled Hodeidah area said. Coast guard Mohamed al-Alay told Reuters the refugees, carrying official UNHCR documents,...

At least two Pakistani security personnel were killed in cross-border fire from Afghanistan Friday, the military said, when gunmen attacked a checkpoint near the frontier in the troubled northwest. The attack in Khyber tribal district was claimed by Jamaat-ul-Ahrar (JuA), a faction of the...

The U.S. military says it carried out an airstrike in northern Syria against an Al-Qaeda target, but denies deliberately targeting a mosque where at least 42 people were killed according to an independent monitor. The U.S.-led coalition has been bombing extremist groups in war-torn Syria for...