After protests by unpaid coal miners made headlines around the world last year as China's parliament was meeting, a $15 billion assistance fund offered by the ruling Communist Party became a symbol of the government's need to ensure social stability. As the National People’s Congress gathers...

Libyan armed forces based in the east launched more airstrikes Saturday against militias that seized oil terminals a day earlier, a spokesman said, accusing troops from the country’s rival west of launching a war. Three strikes hit vehicles and targets in the area around the Es Sidra and Ras...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Thousands of Iraqi refugees continue to cross the border to reach Deir Ez Zor and Hasaka provinces. Several civilians, among them children, were killed by landmines exploding during their attempts to flee from Islamic State controlled areas towards the border with Turkey....

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Alaraby TV Network is in move into a new phase of development  after a fevered work in the past months to deliver fruitful content to the Arab people worldwide with a batch of new programs and daily shows following the start of the test broadcast in January 2015....

An operation was launched Sunday against PKK terrorists in 18 villages of Diyarbakir province's Lice district of southeastern Turkey, security sources said. The operation was carried out in Lice district’s mountainous and forest areas in order to neutralize PKK terrorists, including its...

Almost 1,300 migrants arrived in Sicily on rescue ships over the weekend after crossing the Mediterranean, while a 16-year-old boy died on one of the ships, Italy's Coast Guard said. Italy has seen migrants arriving by boat at a record-setting pace so far this year, with far more people...

The United States on Sunday launched a new wave of air raids against Al-Qaeda in Yemen, as extremists fled from towns being targeted to mountainous areas, security sources said. At least five early morning raids hit targets linked to Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) in the southern...

  (Zaman Al Wasl)- New leaked and detailed document issued by the Islamic State in 2014  reveals how the radical group sorted and registered all experiences of the Jihadists before and during their stay in the group. The documents have been written and organized by the ‘Human...

(The Daily Mail)- A two-month-old baby is being treated in hospital for possible exposure to chemical weapons after an attack in Mosul thought to have been carried out by ISIS. The baby is one of 12 people, including women and children, who have been treated since March 1 after the...

(The Straits Times)- Atop the ruins of Syria's famed Palmyra theatre, recently recaptured from the Islamic State group (ISIS), teenage musician Angel Dayoub sings an old Arabic favourite: "We're coming back, oh love, we're coming back." The 15-year-old's voice floats over the ancient Roman...

Syrian farmers near the Euphrates river are terrified the Islamic State group will literally open the floodgates to defend its stronghold Raqa, drowning their tiny villages in the process. Water levels of the Euphrates, which snakes down through northern Syria and east into Iraq, have shot...

The White House on Sunday requested the U.S. Congress examine whether the Obama administration abused its executive "investigative authority" during the 2016 campaign, as part of the ongoing congressional probe into Russia's influence on the presidential election. The request came a day...

 Iran's hardline former president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad became the latest leader to join Twitter on Sunday, despite having been instrumental in getting it banned from the country. Ahmadinejad's first tweet from his personal account was a video in which he called on people to follow him at...

Tens of thousands of civilians have fled offensives against ISIS in Iraq and Syria, where the extremists are battling to keep what remains of their territory, the UN said Sunday. ISIS overran large areas of both countries in 2014, declaring a "caliphate" in territory it controlled, but the...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday he will meet Russian President Vladimir Putin this week in Moscow to press for a limit to Iran's influence in Syria. Israel is deeply concerned over whether Syria's civil war will result in its arch-foe Iran having increased its power in...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime warplanes conducted at least 100 raids on the besieged northern and eastern suburbs of Damascus in the last 24 hours as regime extends its unprecedented aerial campaign despite ceasefire calls, local activists said. The Syrian warplanes carried out 61 raids in...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Nine people, including rebel fighters, have been killed in a suicide bomb attack in northern Azaz town at the Turkish border, local reporter said Sunday. The suicide bombers blew himself up in  a building belongs to al-Jabah al-Shamiya, key rebel group operating in Aleppo...

Iran said on Sunday there had been progress in talks with Saudi Arabia on allowing citizens of the Islamic republic to join this year's hajj pilgrimage, despite some remaining issues. Iranians were barred from attending last year's hajj after the two countries severed diplomatic ties and...

A four-year-old girl is dead and her eight-year-old sister missing after both were swept out to sea by a large wave in the southern French port of Marseille, a source close to the case said Sunday. The girls' father was also submerged by the stormy seas but survived after quickly being...

Bahrain on Sunday approved a constitutional change allowing military courts to try civilians, the kingdom's latest rollback on reforms made after its 2011 Arab Spring protests that likely will stoke an ongoing government crackdown on dissent. Activists warn the amendment will allow an...