Turkey has increased scrutiny of Russian-speaking Muslim communities in the past few months following a series of attacks blamed on ISIS, a concrete example of the renewed relationship between the two countries. Turkish police have raided the homes of Russian-speaking immigrants in Istanbul,...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- A woman and her daughter have been wounded on Thursday as pro-regime militias step up artillery shelling on the mountains areas of Latakia province, activists said.   The shelling targeted villages of al-Najiya, Bdama, al-Kinda and Mara'nd in Jabal al-Turkman and Jabal...

U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson Friday faces a grilling by global peers seeking clarity about Washington's position on the Syria conflict ahead of crunch U.N. peace talks in Geneva. On the sidelines of a G20 gathering in Germany, Tillerson will join a group of countries supporting the...

The United Arab Emirates says an Emirati soldier has been killed while taking part in the Saudi-led war in Yemen. The state-run WAM news agency reported the soldier's death Friday. It identified the slain soldier as Sgt. Nader Mubarak Issa Suleiman. The UAE is one of the main allies...

U.S. President Donald Trump was wasting his time deriding the media over their coverage of his administration, Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull said on Friday, citing the example of British wartime leader Winston Churchill. Trump has repeatedly described media criticism of him as...

Venezuela's government is pushing forward with measures that could exclude some opposition political parties from future elections, potentially paving the way for the ruling Socialists to remain in power despite widespread anger over the country's collapsing economy. The Supreme Court, loyal...

A U.S. appeals court on Thursday suspended proceedings over President Donald Trump's travel ban for individuals from seven Muslim-majority countries, after Trump announced a new executive order would come soon. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals had been mulling whether to reconsider its...

 With its show of military force, Russia changed the tide of the Syrian civil war. It is finding the next phase -- brokering an end to the fighting -- a tougher proposition. A round of Syria peace talks sponsored by Russia ended on Thursday with no joint communique, usually the minimum...

The United Nations plans to resume aid operations in the eastern half of the Iraqi city of Mosul on Sunday. They were paused on Wednesday because of security concerns amid attacks by ISIS militants. U.N. deputy spokesman Farhan Haq said Thursday that after a new security assessment,...

U.S. President Donald Trump will replace his executive order suspending travel from seven Muslim-majority countries "in the near future," according to a Justice Department court filing on Thursday. Given the upcoming executive order, the Justice Department said a federal appeals court should...

  (Zaman Al Wasl)- A distressing footage of ten-year-old Syrian boy lost his two legs in regime airstrikes on Idlib province has gone viral on social media, sparking widespread anger and sorrow. The footage, released by activists on Thursday, showed the aftermath of regime air strikes...

President Donald Trump attacked the US media again Thursday at his first solo press conference, dismissing news outlets as dishonest. Trump said the US news media serve special interests and people profiting off what he called "a very, very obviously broken system." "The press has become...

(BBC)- Kimberley Taylor, from Blackburn, is the first known British woman to travel to Syria to fight the so-called Islamic State. The 27-year-old, who is on the front line near Raqqa, has been in the country for 11 months. The BBC spoke to her about why she decided to take up arms....

(Sky News)- Sky News has discovered more evidence of horrendous abuses in Syria's prisons, this time involving women and children. Tens of thousands of people have disappeared into jails operated by the Assad regime during the country's uprising and civil war. Last week Amnesty...

   An ISIS-linked group has killed scores of moderate and Islamist rebels who were taken captive during the clashes, a rebel official and the SITE Intelligence Group said Thursday. An offshoot of the Jund al-Aqsa group killed roughly 150-200 members of rebel factions and of another...

The United States and Russia have not been cooperating to solve Syrian humanitarian problems recently, despite a ceasefire and 13 illegal sieges amounting to "strangulation of the civilian population", a senior U.N. official said on Thursday. Jan Egeland, the U.N. humanitarian adviser on...

The head of Syria's government delegation at peace talks in Astana accused Turkey's delegation and Syrian rebels, who arrived on Thursday - the last day of the meeting, of trying to disrupt the negotiations by refusing to agree to a communique. Bashar Ja'afari said the rebels and their...

(Daily Mail)- A Swedish court on Thursday sentenced a Syrian man to life imprisonment for participation in the 2012 mass execution of seven government troops in Syria. The Stockholm District Court ruled that 46-year-old refugee Haisam Omar Sakhanh joined the armed group Suleiman Company in...

A new body is being set up at the United Nations in Geneva to prepare prosecutions of war crimes committed in Syria, U.N. officials and diplomats said on Thursday. The General Assembly voted to establish the mechanism in December and U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is due to name a...

Human Rights Watch Thursday accused Iranian-trained Iraqi paramilitary units battling ISIS of demolishing hundreds of Sunni Arab houses near the city of Mosul, but a spokesman for the units blamed the militants for the damage. The New York-based rights group said the mainly Shi'ite Muslim...