(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 6 civilians have been killed early Sunday in Syrian regime airstrikes that hit the southern countryside of Idlib province, local activists said. A woman and a child were among the victims of 8 raids hit the town of Kafranbel. 19 more people have been wounded in the...

Pakistan tightened security in the city of Lahore ahead of a hugely anticipated final of its domestic cricket league on Sunday, pushing ahead with a rare high-profile match despite a recent spike in Islamist violence. The government had wavered momentarily on whether to host the Pakistan...

A Syrian air force pilot who bailed out as his warplane crashed on Turkish territory has been found by a Turkish rescue team and is being treated at a hospital in the Hatay region, a hospital spokeswoman said on Sunday. Dogan news agency said the pilot, who crashed his plane on Sunday, had...

(Daily Sabah)- A total of 11 PKK terrorists have been killed in airstrikes conducted in northern Iraq, the Turkish military announced on Sunday. The statement released by the military said that the airstrikes carried out by Turkish jets on February 28 between 7:33 p.m. and 8:28 p.m. local...

A total of 66,000 people have been displaced by fighting along two fronts in Syria's fractured north, the United Nation's humanitarian coordination agency (OCHA) said Sunday. "This includes nearly 40,000 people from Al-Bab city and nearby Taduf town, as well as 26,000 people from communities...

U.S.-backed Iraqi forces launched on Sunday a new push toward the Islamic State-held old city center of Mosul, on the western bank of the Tigris river, an Iraqi military spokesman said. Iraqi forces are fighting their way toward the old center of the city, advancing from the south and the...

The energy sector is the stock market's dud so far in 2017 after a banner performance in 2016, and the rest of the year may also be rocky for investors due to the unclear path for crude oil prices. Energy outdid all other sectors last year, up nearly 24 percent thanks to a late-year rally on...

Turkey’s Deputy Prime Minister Tugrul Turkes on Saturday criticized Berlin’s ban on Turkish ministers’ rallies in German cities. The move was not “a nice behavior”, Turkes said as he responded to reporters’ questions at Yunus Emre Institute in London, where he is holding contacts....

By Abdullah Ghadawi (Zaman Al Wasl)- The co-leader of the US-backed Syrian Democratic Council in northern Syria believed that the federalism and autonomous administration could be beneficial in the Syrian case given the failure of the Baathist citizenship project. Riad Darar, in an...

China pledged more support to its military on Sunday including strengthening maritime and air defenses amid efforts to safeguard sovereignty, but in a highly unusual move did not give spending figures for 2017 despite promises of transparency. Parliament's spokeswoman Fu Ying said on...

(Eqtsad)- Goods and food have entered the ISIS-held Yarmouk Basin in the western countryside of Daraa after more than three months of severe blockade, local activists said. The food entry followed a week of fierce clashes between Free Syrian Army and Jaish Khalid bin al-Walid, key ISIS unit...

The Syrian army has expanded its control over former Islamic State-held villages in northwest Syria, gaining more territory as it pushes back the jihadists from more pockets in Aleppo province, state media said on Saturday. The army has made steady progress in recent weeks in eastern Aleppo...

Novak Djokovic has lost the tenacity which enabled him to rule men's tennis for a number of years, former mentor Niki Pilic said on Saturday. "Djokovic reached the Mount Everest of tennis last year after winning the French Open," Pilic, who guided the Serb as a junior at his Munich academy,...

The United Nations warned that the alleged use of chemical weapons in Mosul, if confirmed, would be a war crime and a serious violation of international humanitarian law, according to a statement released Saturday. "This is horrible," Lise Grande, the humanitarian coordinator in Iraq said in...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- A Syrian regime warplane that shot down by powerful Ahrar al-Sham movement has crashed in Turkish Hatay province, Turkish officials said. Prime Minister Binali Yildirim told reporters that "we have information that a MIG model plane belonging to the Syrian regime" had...

Somalia's prime minister says 110 people have died from hunger in the past 48 hours in a single region as a severe drought threatens millions of people. This is the first drought-related death toll announced by Somalia's government since it declared a national disaster on Tuesday. The...

Foreigners aiming for temporary jobs at high-tech U.S. companies will undergo a longer visa approval process after the Trump administration announced it will temporarily suspend expedited applications for H-1B visas. The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) said Friday that...

East Libyan forces carried out air strikes around major oil ports overnight as they sought to regain control of the area from a rival faction, a military spokesman said on Saturday. The eastern-based Libyan National Army (LNA) and allied forces retreated on Friday from the oil ports of Es...

A Jordanian army ambulance pulled up at a makeshift clinic a few hundred meters from a desert border camp where tens of thousands of Syrian refugees are trapped in no man's land. A paramedic clambered out, carrying an emaciated boy around two years old. "Whose child is this?" he shouted...

At least 11 civilians were killed and dozens more wounded Saturday in airstrikes on a central Syrian village that activists said were likely carried out by Russia. "The raids targeted a livestock market in the village of Oqayrabat, held by ISIS in Hama province," said Rami Abdel Rahman,...