(Zaman al-Wasl)- 170 rebel fighters on Monday have evacuated the mountainous town of Sargaya at the Lebanese border to northern Idlib province due to a Russian-brokered deal with the Syrian regime, activists said. The regime prepared several buses to transport around 170 fighters with their...

Syrian regime forces fired rockets at a rebel-held area on Damascus's outskirts on Sunday, pressing an attack that began the day before and has killed up to 16 people, a medical worker and war monitors said. The medical worker and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said it was the biggest...

Eastern Libyan authorities have issued a ban forbidding women from traveling outside the country without a male guardian, sparking mockery. The decision was issued Thursday by the Libyan Chief of Staff Abdel-Razek al-Nadhouri, the military ruler of eastern Libya. He was appointed by army...

Four Russian military personnel were killed and two injured when their vehicle was targeted with explosives in central Syria last week, a defence ministry statement quoted by Russian agencies said Monday. "Four Russian servicemen died when their car exploded on a radio-controlled IED on...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least seven people, including two children and two women, have been killed in regime airstrikes on Barzeh, northeastern suburb of Damascus, local activists said Monday. The northeastern neighborhoods of Damascus have endured to heavy aerial and ground bombardment in the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- US-backed Syria Democratic Forces backed by US airstrikes on Monday took 5 villages from the Islamic State northeast Raqqa city, bringing them closer to cutting a road linking two major IS-held cities in the country and closing in on the extremists’ de facto capital. The...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- An Islamic State affiliate took three village from rebels in the southern province of Daraa on Monday, killing and wounding dozens of civilians and rebels, sources said. Jaish Khaled Ibn al-Walid, an Islamist alliance pledged allegiance to ISIS two year ago, has captured...

Neymar has lost his final appeal and will stand trial on corruption charges related to his transfer to Barcelona four years ago. Barcelona, Brazilian club Santos, and the company run by his parents also lost their appeals and will stand trial after a complaint brought by a Brazilian...

Turkish warplanes launched air strikes against the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) in northern Iraq on Monday, killing 34 militants in two separate bombardments, the military said. The strikes targeted militants in Iraq's Zap region and were conducted shortly after midnight and before...

A 16-year-old Syrian refugee went on trial in Germany Monday accused of planning a bomb attack on behalf of ISIS. The youngster was arrested at an asylum shelter in the western city of Cologne in September, with the authorities describing him as a "serious threat." Police at the time...

An ISIS affiliate in Egypt has released a new video showing the suicide bomber who attacked a church in December and vowing more attacks on the country's Christian minority. The 20-minute video, which emerged Monday, said Christians were the extremist group's "favorite prey." It showed...

ISIS on Monday claimed responsibility for a suicide attack near Mosul it said was carried out by a British suicide bomber, the SITE Intelligence Group reported. "The martyrdom-seeking brother Abu Zakariya al-Britani -- may Allah accept him -- detonated his explosives-laden vehicle on a...

A trial opened Monday in southern Turkey for 47 people charged with attempting to kill President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on the night of the failed coup while he was vacationing with his family. The suspects - 37 of them former military personnel - face possible life sentences on charges that...

Egypt's top court upheld death sentences for 10 men on Tuesday for their part in Egypt's worst violence at a football stadium, in which more than 70 fans were killed in February 2012. Many of the dead were crushed when panicked fans tried to escape from the Port Said stadium after a...

Britain's House of Lords is to begin debating a bill empowering Prime Minister Theresa May to kickstart Brexit -- a potentially tricky test given her Conservatives do not hold a majority there. Discussions in the unelected upper house of parliament get underway after the lower House of...

(Eqtsad)- Om Mohamed, 50-year-old woman lives in the besieged Eastern Ghouta suburbs near the capital, did not realize that she will be forced one day to sell the gold which she saved during 25 years from the income of her martyred husband as he used to work in selling electric devices. Om...

Europeans have reacted to U.S. President Donald Trump's first month in office with demonstrations, counter-barbs and sheer angst that a century of trans-Atlantic friendship may be sinking. The governments of some traditional allies have gone a step further, uniting with fundraising plans and...

TEHRAN Iran on Monday criticized what it said was coordination between Israel and regional rival Saudi Arabia, describing attempts to create an "international atmosphere" against Tehran. Foreign ministry spokesman Bahram Ghasemi said the two countries "imagine they can compensate for their...

U.S.-backed Iraqi forces fought ISIS fighters on Monday to clear the way to Mosul's airport, on the second day of a ground offensive on the extremists' remaining stronghold in the western side of the city. Federal police and elite interior ministry units known as Rapid Response are leading...

One in four Canadians say Ottawa should have adopted a temporary halt on Syrian refugees in response to the United States' controversial travel ban, though the majority supported the government's current immigration plan, an Angus Reid Institute poll showed on Monday. Sixty percent of those...