(The Daily Star)- More than a week of U.N.-sponsored peace talks ended in Geneva Friday, the main opposition group said, calling the results "more positive" than previous rounds. "We are closing this round without (a) clear result ... but I can say this time was more positive," Nasr...

 A taxi stops in the small town of Champlain. Loaded down with belongings, a family with two children gets out and hurries to the road's end at a stream marking the US-Canada border. "We are coming all the way from Jersey City," says the father, Mohammed Ahmed. The city near New York is...

A Jordanian army ambulance pulled up at a makeshift clinic a few hundred metres 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...

 U.S. and tribal officials are opposing an effort by the developer of the $3.8 billion Dakota Access oil pipeline to keep some information shielded from the public while a court battle over the project continues. Texas-based Energy Transfer Partners last month asked a judge to shield...

After his arrest and torture by the government of Bashar al-Assad, dissident Khaled Rawas slipped out of Syria pledging to continue the fight. On Wednesday, he did just that — joining a landmark legal complaint in Germany seeking something that has long proved elusive for the victims of the...

A Russian general has reportedly been seriously wounded in Palmyra, the first Russian military person of the rank of general to be injured in the war, Fontanka and TV Rain reported. Maj. Gen. Pyotr Milyukhin reportedly lost both his legs and an eye in an explosion a week ago during a...

Damage to the World Heritage site of Palymra by ISIS militants may be less than earlier believed, Syria's antiquities chief said Friday. Maamoun Abdulkarim told Reuters that video from Palmyra after it was recaptured by the Syrian army has shown less damage than archaeologists feared when...

Atletico Madrid striker Fernando Torres was released from the hospital on Friday following a scary head-to-head clash which left him unconscious. Atletico said a CAT scan did not reveal any damage to his head or neck. Torres told local media shortly after being discharged that he was...

The United States has carried out another wave of precision strikes in Yemen targeting Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, two U.S. officials told Reuters on Friday, a day after the Pentagon acknowledged carrying out more than 20 strikes. One of the officials, however, said there were no U.S....

An Iraqi military commander says forces have taken control of another neighborhood in western Mosul. Brig. Gen. Yahya Rasool, spokesman of the Joint Military Operations Command, tells The Associated Press Friday that despite bad weather, Iraqi special operations forces have completely...

The U.N. Security Council Friday kicked off a visit to spotlight Africa's worst humanitarian crisis as millions face hunger amid the Boko Haram insurgency in Nigeria and the Lake Chad region. One question in the aid response is the United States, which pledged no funding for the Nigeria...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian rebels on Friday thwarted major attack carried out by regime forces in the western countryside of Aleppo, local reporter said. The regime army backed by Shiite militias launched an offensive to take villages of Jabal Shwaihna, Jabal Maara and Rashdin al-Shamaliya west...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel is set to press Tunisian leaders to step up efforts to help curb an influx of illegal migrants to her country during a visit Friday. Her two-day trip, which also included a stop in Egypt, comes with Germany still reeling from several jihadist attacks,...

Syrian army units were clearing land mines and explosives left behind by ISIS militants in the historic town of Palmyra Friday, a day after government troops and allied militiamen recaptured it from the extremists, a Syrian security official said. The military expects the process to be...

By Ethar Abdulhaq (Zaman Al Wasl)- Lafarge-Holcim group for building material confirmed Zaman al-Wasl’s previous revelation about the company’s commercial relationship with the Islamic State. The head of the Syrian branch of the company originally described this news as ‘rumor’ when Zaman...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian Peshmerga killed and injured several fighters from the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) while defending a Peshmerga location from the PKK forces’ attack at the Syrian-Iraqi border region on Friday, commander said. Lieutenant Saadoun Sino said the PKK fighters fled...

With frequent suicide bombings and assaults on Somalia's hotels and military targets, the Islamic extremist group al-Shabab has proved more resilient than expected, leading President Donald Trump's administration to pursue wider military involvement here as current strategies, including drone...

Bangladeshi police have arrested the head of an Islamist militant group accused of inspiring followers to kill foreigners, the chief of the counter-terrorism unit said Friday. Shaikh Mohammad Abul Kashem, who founded an offshoot of the larger Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) group, was...

Beijing's escalating condemnation of South Korea over a U.S. anti-missile system has triggered protests against a popular retail giant and a reported ban on Chinese tour groups visiting the country, apparent signs that Beijing plans to make Seoul pay an economic price over a move that China says...

A rustic theatre where performers wear masks carved from cactus aims to win over young Tunisians in a long neglected mountain district that has become a cradle of jihadism. Welcome to the "Jabal (mountain) Theatre" of music and dance on an open-air stage flattened from bare earth on Mount...