A Saudi-led coalition has declared Yemen's Hudaida city a military zone, urging civilians in the Houthi-held Red Sea port to stay in their homes, days after the United Nations warned that airstrikes could trap civilians and hamper aid efforts. The military coalition of mainly Gulf Arab...

Pakistan is conducting mass repatriation of Afghan refugees through coercion, threats and abuse, Human Rights Watch said in a scathing report Monday, accusing the U.N. refugee agency of complicity in promoting the exodus. Hundreds of thousands of Afghans have been forced to return to their...

(Al-Jazeera)- Six journalists, including three media owners, have been arrested in the Ivory Coast for "spreading false information" about a mutiny by security forces, their newspapers and the public prosecutor said. The move came after elite forces became the latest troops to protest over...

President Donald Trump's national security adviser, Michael Flynn, is struggling to get past a controversy over his contacts with Russian officials before Trump took office, conversations that officials said have raised concerns within the White House. Top White House officials have been...

Tens of thousand demonstrators marched Sunday in 20 cities across Mexico to protest U.S. President Donald Trump. Chants of “United Mexico will never be defeated” and “Go away Trump” were among the slogans adopted as marchers proudly waved the Mexican flag and demanded respect for Mexico and...

By Naser Ali (Zaman Al Wasl)- Syria's ongoing war has left tragic side effects, most notably the foundlings and homeless children, according to activists who assure the absence of an accurate number of the Syrian orphans and displaced children. A baby child in good health was found last...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- A pro-regime militia said 28 members were ambushed and killed by the Islamic State on Friday in the northern province of Aleppo. The Iran-backed Liwa al Quds said in statement the ultra-hardline group attacked their checkpoints in Khanaser district last week, killing and...

(The Guardian)- Long before Khatoon Khider took up a gun, she became famous for singing about another woman who went to war, a tragic heroine who followed her lover into battle in disguise. And she wondered even then, years before the Islamic State had been created and nearly a decade before...

(The Independent)- The Secretary-General of the United Nations has said the fight against extremists in Syria needs a political solution.  Antonio Guterres also said any solution in the battle against terrorists in the region will need the support of the Syrian people.  The...

  (Zaman Al Wasl)- Islamic State has showed stubbornness on Sunday despite the gains made by the Turkish special forces and Free Syrian Army in its last stronghold of al-Bab in northern Aleppo province. FSA took new ground from ISIS in the northern neighborhood but its defeat still not...

France pulled clear in the final 10 minutes to defeat battling Scotland 22-16 in the Six Nations on Sunday. Scotland outscored France by two tries to one but Camille Lopez kicked 17 points to guide the hosts to victory. Although wasteful at times, France coach Guy Noves said it was...

(The Guardian )- American airstrikes in Afghanistan’s Helmand province may have killed at least 18 civilians, mostly women and children, according to the UN and local sources. The airstrikes took place late on Thursday in Sangin district, which has been highly contested for most of the...

Thousands of people in Russia's second-largest city held competing demonstrations Sunday for and against the return of the renowned St. Isaac's Cathedral to the Russian Orthodox Church. The cathedral, one of St. Petersburg's top tourist destinations, was seized by the state after the 1917...

The Lebanese Hezbollah movement strongly supports the Syria ceasefire agreed upon in Kazakhstan and any truce that could lead to a political solution, its leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said on Sunday. Russia and Turkey brokered a shaky ceasefire in December between rebel groups and the...

Tension between Iraq's Shiite leaders mounted Sunday as the toll from protests in central Baghdad on Saturday increased to six killed, five demonstrators loyal to the fiery cleric Moqtada al-Sadr and one policeman. At least 174 other protesters were injured in clashes that pitted police and...

 U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said Sunday the U.N. envoy to Yemen had his full support, days after Yemen's Houthi group asked him not to renew the diplomat's term due to what it alleged was bias against the Iranian-aligned movement. In a joint news conference with Saudi...

Turkish troops and Free Syrian Army fighters have "besieged" the Daesh-held town of Al-Bab in northern Syria and are now "on the verge of capturing it," President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Sunday. "Our forces along with the Free Syrian Army [fighters] have reached the [town] center. And...

German authorities on Sunday closed the airport in northern city of Hamburg after an unknown substance that caused eye irritation among staff was found in the security check area, a police spokeswoman said. According to live flight tracking website flightradar24.com some flights were...

President Tayyip Erdogan said on Sunday the final goal of a Turkish incursion into Syria was not just to retake the city of al-Bab from Islamic State, but to cleanse a border region including Raqqa of the jihadists. Turkish-backed Syrian rebels are pressing a major offensive on al-Bab, 30 km...

Police fired tear gas after clashes erupted in the suburbs of Paris as demonstrators protested over the assault of a young black man who was allegedly anally raped with a truncheon while being arrested. Surrounded by a heavy police contingent, about 2,000 protesters, some carrying placards...