Russian-backed Syrian government forces will enter the ISIS-held city of Palmyra "very soon", a Syrian military source said Wednesday, as government forces seek to win back the city from the group for the second time in a year. The army said Wednesday it had captured an area known as the...

Scores of Daesh militants were killed in western Mosul on Tuesday as part of a major offensive to drive the terrorist group from the northern city, according to an Iraqi military commander.  General Abdul Amir Yarullah, commander of the Mosul operation, said Iraqi forces killed 52...

Bangladesh police fired riot guns and tear gas Wednesday as a protest by bus drivers and truckers turned violent, with several injured in clashes that saw a low-grade bomb hurled at officers. One driver was critically injured after being shot while four officers were taken to hospital after...

The U.S. Trump administration is reviewing its participation in the top United Nations human rights body, with an eye to reform and a balanced agenda that ends the forum's "obsession with Israel", a senior U.S. official said on Wednesday. "In order for this Council to have any credibility,...

(The Guardian)- A Tunisian investigative judge has charged six security guards with failing to help tourists under attack during the 2015 massacre at a beach resort in Sousse, a counter-terrorism official has said. The details were revealed after a British inquiry on Tuesday found Tunisian...

A Norwegian appeals court will decide Wednesday whether mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik is being treated inhumanely in prison by being kept in isolation after a lower court ruled in his favor. In April 2016, an Oslo district court stunned the survivors and families of the 77 victims of...

Afghan Taliban militants said they attacked police, military and intelligence targets in the Afghan capital of Kabul Wednesday and security officials confirmed ongoing attacks in at least two areas of the city. One attack appeared to have targeted an office of Afghanistan's intelligence...

(Zaman Al Wasl TV)- Bilal as many other children is a victim of Syrian regime's barrel bombs. He lost a leg and four fingers on one hand in an attack on war-ravaged city of Aleppo. Abu Hassan, Bilal’s father, was injured in his leg and until this time he cannot move. Oum Hassan takes care of...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Powerful Kurdish PYD arrested several teachers as they and students protested the militia enforcing its education curriculum on their schools in Ghuayran neighborhood in al-Hasaka city on Tuesday. According to the activist Malaz al-Yusef, armed members of the Democratic Union...

European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker will Wednesday unveil a menu of options for the EU's future in the hope of rebuilding unity after Britain leaves the troubled bloc. Juncker's "White Paper" will be presented to the European Parliament in Brussels, before it is given to...

South Korean and U.S. troops began large-scale joint military exercise on Wednesday conducted annually to test their defense readiness against the threat from North Korea, which routinely characterizes the drills as preparation for war against it. The exercise, called Foal Eagle, comes amid...

 U.S.-backed Iraqi army units shut the last main exit out of ISIS' stronghold in western Mosul, controlling access to the city from the northwest, a general and residents there said Wednesday. The army's 9th armored division is within a kilometer of Mosul's "Syria Gate", the...

President Donald Trump told Congress Tuesday he was open to immigration reform, shifting from his harsh rhetoric on illegal immigration in a speech that offered a more restrained tone than his election campaign and first month in the White House. Trump, in a prime-time address to a country...

King Salman Wednesday began the first visit by a Saudi monarch to Indonesia in almost 50 years, seeking to strengthen economic ties with the world's most populous Muslim-majority country. The king -- who is accompanied by about 1,000 people, including princes and ministers -- disembarked...

President Donald Trump and his top advisors have often scoffed at government support of green energy. His chief strategist called it “madness.” But the largest U.S. government agency - the Department of Defense - plans to forge ahead under the new administration with a decade-long effort to...

U.S. President Donald Trump insisted on Tuesday that a January raid in Yemen was a success and gathered vital intelligence against the al Qaeda affiliate there, despite questions raised about the effectiveness of the mission. In his first nationally televised speech to Congress since taking...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Hama military airport in central Syria has turned into Iran's main cargo base where weapons and floods of Shiite militants have been pouring into the war-torn county in support of the Syrian regime and the Islamic Republic's agenda. Tens of the Iranians cargo planes have...

The U.S.-led coalition effort against ISIS is killing the group's fighters more quickly than it can replace them, a senior British general said on Tuesday, with more than 45,000 killed by coalition air strikes up to August last year. On Tuesday, U.S.-backed Iraqi forces continued their...

As the Turkey-backed Free Syrian Army (FSA) combs for landmines and booby-traps in recently recaptured Al-Bab, some local families who escaped Daesh’s grip have begun returning to their homes. FSA fighters are warning returnees to tread cautiously when reentering their homes due to the...

Police Tuesday searched dozens of sites in Germany linked to a mosque that was frequented by the Berlin market attacker Anis Amri, after authorities banned the Islamic group that operated it. Some 450 officers raided 24 locations in Berlin, the neighboring state of Brandenburg, and Hamburg...