Combining public bluster with behind-the-scenes diplomacy, China wrested a concession from the United States as the two presidents spoke for the first time this week, but Beijing may not be able to derive much comfort from the win on U.S. policy toward Taiwan. Several areas of disagreement...

Amazon.com Inc (AMZN.O) warned on Friday that government actions to bolster domestic companies against foreign competition could hurt its business, in a possible reference to U.S. President Donald Trump's "America First" agenda. In a routine description of regulatory risks in its 2016 annual...

President Donald Trump on Friday appeared to adopt a harsher stance on Israel's illegal settlements, ahead of an upcoming meeting with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. “They [settlements] don't help the process,” Trump said in an interview with the Israel Hayom newspaper. “I am not...

A prominent Syrian dissident said Friday he believed the country's war was effectively over, as foreign governments have cut support to rebels fighting to overthrow President Bashar Assad. Louay Hussein said Russian-backed diplomacy had "launched a new path" towards ending the conflict,...

(Daily Mail)- A Danish politics student who trained as a sniper to fight Isis in Syria has told how she has 'lost everything' after being labelled a terrorist - and now faces assassination by Isis. Joanna Palani, 23, dropped out of college to join the battle against jihadis in Syria, spending...

(Washington Post)- Maher Almahasneh returned home from his English language class to a small living room filled with guests. He calls them friends. Harley Kooker, a 71-year-old dairy cattle veterinarian, was huddled in a kitchen corner assembling a new portable washing machine he’d...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Five rebel groups operating in northern Hasaka province have merged on Friday in one armed group aims to confront powerful Kurdish PYD militia, calling for men in province to join their ranks, according to a video statement . Abu Humam, senior commander in the newly-formed...

Russia intervened to halt a clash between Syrian government forces and Turkey-backed Syrian rebels in northern Syria, sources on both sides said on Friday, the first confrontation between them as both sides fight Islamic State in the area. Islamic State is under attack from separate campaigns...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- US-backed Syria Democratic Forces on Friday took two villages from ISIS east of Raqqa city, the group’s de facto capital where the third phase of major offensive to seize it from ISIS has been announced early this week. The rapid gains by the Kurdish-led forces come along with...

They are fighting the world's most feared jihadists, but hundreds of Arab female fighters battling the Islamic State group in Syria are also confronting the disapproval of their relatives and society. "I braved my tribal clan, my father, my mother. Now I'm braving the enemy," says...

At least five people were killed and 19 wounded on Friday, in two suicide bombings that hit an Iraqi army position and a restaurant in eastern Mosul, a medical source said. A man believed to belong to ISIS blew himself up inside the Sayidati al-Jamila ("My Fair Lady") restaurant at...

The Kremlin said Friday that Turkey had provided Russian forces with the target location for airstrikes in Syria that accidentally killed three Turkish troops. "The situation is obvious, unfortunately. Our military while launching strikes on terrorists followed coordinates that were given to...

Russia intervened to halt a clash between Syrian government forces and Turkey-backed Syrian rebels in northern Syria, sources on both sides said on Friday, the first confrontation between them as both sides fight Islamic State in the area. Islamic State is under attack from separate...

President Bashar Assad rejected the creation of safe zones for refugees and displaced people in Syria, an idea supported by U.S. President Donald Trump, according to a transcript from an interview with Yahoo News released Friday. He signaled he would welcome cooperation with Washington in...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Friday rubber-stamped controversial constitutional changes that will boost his own powers, paving the way for a referendum on the legislation in April. The government says the proposals to create an executive presidency will simplify the government...

  (Zaman Al Wasl)- 6 civilians on Friday have been killed in regime airstrikes on Waer neighborhood, last rebel stronghold in central Homs city, local activists said. The aerial bombing on the besieged al-Waer neighborhood have killed 17 people in the past two days. A fragile...

 U.S. President Donald Trump does not believe Israeli settlement growth in Palestinian territories is "good for peace", he told a paper Friday, in his most direct comments on the matter since inauguration. In the interview published in Hebrew by the Israel Hayom newspaper, Trump also...

German prosecutors say they have charged a 28-year-old Turkish man with membership in a terrorist organization on allegations he joined ISIS and another extremist organization in Syria. Frankfurt prosecutors said in a statement Friday that the suspect, whose name wasn't released, is accused...

The Saudi-led coalition has intensified air strikes on the Yemen port of Hodeidah, potentially trapping civilians and endangering a humanitarian operation to import vital supplies, the United Nations human rights office said Friday. Yemeni government forces backed by Gulf Arab troops have...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Free Syrian Army pressed further gains inside the the ISIS-controlled town of al-Bab in northern Aleppo province, taking new neighborhood after three days since the Turkish-backed moderate pursued a major offensive to seize the strategic stronghold of ISIS. FSA took al-Hikma...