(Zaman Al Wasl- Exclusive)- During the period that following the announcement of the Caliphate in June 2014, several studies emerged focused on the Islamic State’s economic structure, the most significant resources the Islamic State depends on to fund its operations and cover its expenditures,...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Free Syria Army fighters on Monday have captured half of al-Manshiya neighborhood in southern Daraa province after three days of fierce clashes. The Free Syria Army said 5 regime officers were killed and dozen wounded in al-Manshiya, the strategic neighborhood that situated at...

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Monday a new round of Syria talks in Kazakhstan’s capital Astana would be held in the same format as last month. In comments reported by Russia’s official TASS news agency, Lavrov said the Astana meeting would be used to promote a cease-fire and...

A string of “compassion stores” have been opened by the Turkish Red Crescent to provide clothing to refugees in Syria’s Idlib, the charity said Monday. Three shops in the northwestern city will also provide toiletries, according to a statement. The supplies have been provided by Turkish...

Tunisian security forces are using methods in their war against Islamist militants that are associated with overthrown leader Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, including torture, arbitrary arrests and detentions, Amnesty International said Monday. The human right group said in a report that such...

 Iraqi forces have thwarted an attempt by around 200 extremist fighters to flee their bastion of Tal Afar toward Syria, west of the city of Mosul, a security spokesman said Monday. Forces from the Hashed al-Shaabi (Popular Mobilization), a paramilitary organization dominated by Shiite...

Russia released drone footage Monday showing new destruction in Syria's historic town of Palmyra, which was recently recaptured by the Islamic State group, and warned that the militants could be planning the further demolition of antiquities. The Russian Defense Ministry says Syrian...

Four Shia militiamen and 13 militants were killed in Daesh attacks in Iraq’s predominantly Turkmen city of Tal Afar late Sunday, according to a local police officer. Daesh militants attacked positions of the Hashd al-Shaabi militia in western Tal Afar in an attempt to break an army siege...

 Indonesian Muslim school students Monday staged a protest against Valentine's Day, denouncing what they said was a Western celebration that encourages casual sex. While teenagers in many countries treat the day as an occasion to declare love for their classmates, in the Indonesian city...

A Belgian man was sentenced to 28 years in jail Monday for killing a prisoner while fighting with extremist groups in Syria, the first murder conviction of a returned fighter in Belgium. Hakim Elouassaki, 24, returned to Belgium in 2013 after being wounded in the conflict, a few months after...

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan Monday condemned Israel's decision to ramp up settlements in the West Bank as an "absolute provocation." Israel announced plans last month for 3,000 more settlement homes in the occupied West Bank. It has also retroactively legalized about 4,000 settlement...

Syrian extremists seen as close to ISIS battled a rival hard-line Islamist faction Monday in northwestern Syria, activists and an official with another insurgent group said, in an escalating power struggle. Jund al-Aqsa and Tahrir al-Sham clashed around Kafr Zeita in the countryside north of...

(The Daily Mail )- Every day, the bodies were delivered to the hospital: battered beyond belief and hideously scarred from months of the most horrific torture imaginable. The corpses were shrivelled from dehydration and starvation, with ribs sticking out and limbs like sticks. Most were...

The secretary-general of the United Nations says he "deeply regrets" the United States' decision to block a former Palestinian prime minister from leading the world body's political mission in Libya. Antonio Guterres says that Salam Fayyad was "the right person for the right job at the right...

Reverberations from President Donald Trump's travel ban and other stances are threatening to undermine future U.S.-Iraqi security cooperation, rattling a key alliance that over the past two years has slowly beaten back the Islamic State group. Iraq's prime minister, Haider al-Abadi, has...

The Russian Foreign Ministry said Monday it was concerned by the latest North Korean missile tests that run contrary to U.N. resolutions, RIA news agency quoted the ministry as saying. Moscow also called all related parties to remain calm and to refrain from any actions which may lead to...

A senior German official is cautioning against 'special deals' between individual European Union countries and the United States under President Donald Trump. A leading contender to be U.S. ambassador to the EU, Ted Malloch, has said the U.S. administration is suspicious of the 28-nation...

By Mohamed al-Sharif (Zaman Al Wasl)- Lawyer of the Syrian refugee who took a selfie with German  Chancellor Angela Merkel refuted claims Facebook's representatives in court. Anas Modamani, the 19-year-old refugee who arrived to Germany in 2015, has accused the giant social utility of...

A roadside bomb killed three Pakistani paramilitary soldiers in a restive northwestern tribal area bordering Afghanistan, officials said Monday. The Improvised Explosive Device went off as the trio were on patrol Sunday on a motorbike in Toikhola village in South Waziristan tribal district....

U.S. President Donald Trump was expected to unveil new measures on immigration as early as Monday in the name of keeping Americans safe, with a top aide insisting he did not overstep his authority with his controversial travel ban. With the ban now frozen by a federal appeals court pending...