Chancellor Angela Merkel's chief of staff says that while the German government hasn't blocked campaign appearances by Turkish politicians, that isn't a "free pass" for the future. Several German municipalities canceled rallies that Turkish ministers had planned to address in support of a...

They Syrian army and its allies gained control of an arterial road in a small rebel pocket in northeast Damascus early on Monday, bringing them close to splitting the enclave in two, activists said. The advance was along a road that links the besieged districts of Barzeh, Qaboun and Tishrin...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian rebels launched counterattack on regime forces in southern Daraa city, taking few blocks as clashes enter the second month to control strategic neighborhood in the Old City of Daraa. Rebels said in statement posted online they have killed several army troops and...

Ousted South Korean leader Park Geun-Hye was assailed by newspapers and politicians Monday for her defiance over the court ruling that ended her tenure as president. Park left Seoul's presidential complex on Sunday, two days after the Constitutional Court upheld her impeachment by parliament...

Ground staff at Berlin's two airports have gone on strike for the second time in four days, forcing the cancellation of hundreds of flights. The ver.di union called on staff at the Tegel and Schoenefeld airports to walk out from 4 a.m. Monday until 5 a.m. Tuesday. The strike follows a...

Russia, Turkey and Iran are pressing ahead with a fresh round of Syria talks in Kazakhstan, Kazakh Foreign Minister Kairat Abdrakhmanov said on Monday, despite a request from the Syrian rebels to delay the meeting. "We are awaiting confirmations from the other parties to the meeting,"...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 15 people were killed in the ISIS-held city of Deir Ezzor when regime forces pounded al-Hamidiya neighborhood with surface-to-surface missile, local activist said Sunday. Ahmed Ramadhan, Deir Ezzor-based activist, said the missiles attack accompanied with regime...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Revolutionary Youth, a group subordinate to the Democratic Union Party, has attacked supporters of the Kurdish National Council during their events organized al-Qamishli city commemorating the events of 12 March 2004, first Kurdish uprising against the Syrian regime. An...

At least 652 children were killed in Syria in 2016, making it the worst year yet for the country's rising generation, the United Nations' child relief agency said Monday. There was no letup to attacks on schools, hospitals, playgrounds, parks and homes last year as the Syrian government, its...

Lawmakers on Sunday introduced amendments to China's nascent civil code to make defaming "heroes and martyrs" of the ruling Communist Party a civil offense, as the leadership moves to strengthen its grasp on the history of the People's Republic. China's ongoing National People's Congress...

Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull and maverick nationalist politician Pauline Hanson faced questions about their leadership on Monday after their parties suffered a resounding defeat in a state election at the weekend. Turnbull had already been trying to fight back against...

(The Independent)- An anti-Isis civilian fighter is crowdfunding so he can return to Syria for the third time. Steven Kerr, 58, from Northamptonshire, who left his job as a warehouse manager to join Kurdish rebels on the front line, is hoping to go back to Raqqa, the jihadis’ stronghold in...

German Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere said on Sunday that a Tunisian man wanted in his homeland for his possible involvement in a deadly attack on a Tunis museum in 2015 can be deported. The man was arrested last month on suspicion of planning an Islamist attack in Germany. In 2015...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- US-led coalition airstrikes killed at least 19 people in Raqqa province, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Sunday. The aerial bombing hit a school that turned into a displaced shelter for tens of families in al-Kesrat village south of the Islamic State's de facto...

 Iraqi forces battling to retake Mosul have cut the last road out of the city, trapping ISIS fighters inside, the U.S. envoy to the anti-ISIS coalition said Sunday. "ISIS is trapped. Just last night, the 9th Iraqi army division, up near Badush, just northwest of Mosul, cut off the last...

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan on Sunday called on international organizations to impose sanctions on the Netherlands, as a diplomatic row over Ankara's political campaigning among Turkish immigrants in Europe continues to simmer. Speaking at an event in Kocaeli province, near Istanbul,...

Syria's former Al-Qaeda affiliate Fateh al-Sham Front on Sunday said in a statement it was behind twin bombings targeting Shiite pilgrims in the center of Damascus that killed 74 people. "On Saturday... a twin attack was carried out by two heroes of Islam... in the center of the capital...

The remains of hundreds of mainly Shiite inmates killed by ISIS militants when they overran a prison in northern Iraq more than two years ago have been unearthed by forces retaking the area from the group, a spokesman said. An Iraqi Shiite paramilitary group made the discovery after driving...

It was once home to priceless archaeological treasures, but these days you get into Mosul museum in Iraq's second city via a gaping hole in the basement. In the darkness lies a pile of rubble -- all that remains of two ancient Assyrian statues of winged bulls, smashed to pieces by Islamic...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- A prominent Syrian doctor and a father of 7 sons passed away in regime air strikes has been killed on Sunday in regime airstrikes on southern Daraa city, medics said. The aerial attack on the neighborhood of al-Manshiya targeted a crew of medics were treating wounded...