Scores of bodies, presumably of African migrants, washed ashore in Libya, in the western city of Zawiya on the Mediterranean Sea, Libya's Red Crescent spokesman said Tuesday. At least 74 bodies were found on the beach in Zawiya but the circumstances of their drowning remained a mystery, the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 13 civilians on Monday were killed in the ISIS-held city of al-Bab as Turkey and US-led coalition stepped up its aerial campaign in support of Free Syrian Army fighters who press to take the strategic stronghold, local reporter said. The Turkish-led Operation Euphrates...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- US-backed Kurdish fighters backed by US airstrikes on Monday seized control of an oil field and 8 villages from the Islamic State in Deir Ezzor and Raqqa provinces, activists said Tuesday. Ahmed al-Ali, Hasaka-based activist, said SDF took al-Jweif oil well from ISIS in...

(Zaman al-Wasl)- Thuwar al-Atarib Group said unknown armed group had kidnapped Syrian army defector Major Anas Ibrahim Abu Zaid on Thursday near al-Atarib city in western Aleppo countryside. Media professional Yousef Obaid in the group told Zaman al-Wasl they accuse Hayat Tahrir al-Sham to be...

French conservative presidential election candidate Francois Fillon changed tack on public healthcare Tuesday, saying he would ensure universal access to free eye-glasses, hearing aids and false teeth if elected. The proposal contrasted starkly with his initial program, which centered on...

Forty-four ISIS militants were killed by Turkey-backed operations around the Syrian town of al-Bab and in U.S.-led coalition airstrikes Monday, the Turkish military said Tuesday. One Turkish soldier was killed and two were wounded during work to clear landmines and explosives in the area,...

An Israeli military court will Tuesday sentence a soldier convicted of the manslaughter of a Palestinian attacker in a case which has stoked passions, debate and protest. The court last month delivered a guilty verdict against Elor Azaria, 21, for killing Abdul Fatah al-Sharif as he lay...

A military spokesman says Iraqi forces are consolidating their gains south of Mosul ahead of moving deeper into the city's ISIS-held western half. The spokesman of the Joint Military Operation Command, Brig. Gen. Yahya Rasool, told The Associated Press Tuesday that nearly 123 square...

Suicide bombers attacked a court complex in Pakistan Tuesday, killing at least four people, officials said, in the latest incident in a new surge of Islamist violence. A spokesman for the Pakistani Taliban's Jamaat-ur-Ahrar faction claimed responsibility for the attack in the northwestern...

U.N.-brokered Syria peace talks restart in Geneva Thursday after a 10-month hiatus that has seen the opposition weakened and political upheaval in the foreign powers shaping the conflict. Since April 2016, when rival delegations were last in the Swiss city, government forces have...

Chinese authorities have ordered all motor vehicles in Bayingol prefecture in far-western Xinjiang to be installed with mandatory satellite tracking devices, the latest tough anti-terror measure targeting the ethnically divided region. China has been stepping up already tight security in...

Jakarta was hit by widespread flooding Tuesday after hours of torrential rain, with thousands of homes inundated, cars stranded and people forced to wade through murky brown water. Water up to 1.5 meters (five feet) deep deluged parts of the Indonesian capital after a major thunderstorm...

London-based bank HSBC reported Tuesday that annual profit slumped by more than 80 percent following a year of "unexpected economic and political events" that contributed to volatile markets and influenced investment activity. Europe's biggest bank that net profit for 2016 tumbled 82 percent...

Seven companies will start trading in Saudi Arabia next Sunday on a parallel market designed to boost the role of small and medium firms, the bourse said Monday. The new market, called Nomu, “is an alternative trading platform with lighter listing requirements compared to the main market,”...

Five people were killed on Tuesday when a small plane crashed in to the roof of a shopping mall after taking off from an airfield outside Melbourne, Australia's second-largest city, police said. The twin-turboprop Beechcraft King Air plane suffered engine failure and crashed into the mall...

A Palestinian baby was reunited with her mother after more than six months Monday after Israel granted Jumana Daoud a permit to travel from Gaza to Jerusalem to fetch her. Daoud and rights groups said she had submitted an application several months ago to reenter Israel to retrieve baby...

Iran summoned the Turkish ambassador in Tehran on Monday over comments made by Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu and President Tayyip Erdogan accusing the Islamic Republic of destabilizing the region. Tehran and Ankara support opposite sides in the conflict in Syria with mostly...

The German government has drafted a law to allow authorities to tap into the phone and computer data of asylum-seekers if there are doubts about their nationalities – an unusual move in a country where data protection is sacred. According to a draft of the bill obtained by Reuters, officials...

Russia's ambassador to the United Nations, Vitaly Churkin, has died in New York, the Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement on Monday. The ministry gave no details on the circumstances of his death but offered condolences to his relatives and said the diplomat had died one day before...

Israel's Shin Bet security service said Monday it had arrested an Arab Israeli on suspicion of aiding ISIS and plotting attacks. Its agents and police had arrested Anas Haj Yahya, 35, from the northern town of Taibe, on Jan. 29 "in the wake of intelligence information which pointed to him as...