Belgium's terror monitoring centre has expressed concerns about the spread of Saudi- and Gulf-backed fundamentalist Islam in the country's mosques, according to an official report published in local media Wednesday. The OCAM national crisis centre said the austere Sunni doctrine of Wahhabism...

The Syrian Red Crescent said on its Twitter account four volunteers were wounded, one critically, by shellfire as they distributed aid in Aleppo Wednesday. The International Committee of the Red Cross said in a separate tweet three people were killed and seven injured, including Red...

Thirty-two combatants were killed Wednesday in the battle for a key coastal town in western Yemen between government forces and Shiite Huthi rebels, officials said. The deaths occurred as forces loyal to President Abed-Rabbou Masnour Hadi advanced into neighborhoods of Mokha and Huthis...

Belgian police detained 11 people after a series of raids across Brussels overnight as part of an investigation into possible returning fighters from Syria. The federal prosecutors said in a statement on Wednesday that police had carried out searches at nine addresses in various districts of...

Forces fighting ISIS should be able to retake the ISIS-held cities of Mosul in Iraq and Raqqa in Syria within the next six months, according to the top U.S. commander in Iraq. On a tour north of Baghdad Wednesday, U.S. Army Lt. Gen. Stephen Townsend said "within the next six months I think...

 (Zaman Al wasl)- US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces on Wednesday took three villages from ISIS north of Raqqa city, spokeswoman told Zaman al-Wasl. Jihan Ahmed, spokeswoman of the operation room of Euphrates Wrath said  that their forces at the axis of Makman have reached to the...

A military chief of a self-proclaimed Russian-backed republic in eastern Ukraine was killed in an "act of terror" Wednesday, the latest victim of a string of similar attacks, local authorities said. The dead man was Mikhail Tolstykh, 36, head of the notorious "Somali" battalion and a leading...

Facebook plans to add a feature Wednesday to make it easier for people affected by disasters to find each other locally to provide and receive help. The world's largest social network said its "Community Help" will activate after natural disasters and major accidents as a part of "Safety...

Yemen’s top diplomat said the country has called for a “reassessment” of a Jan. 28 raid that left multiple civilians and a U.S. service member dead, but did not issue an outright ban on future American-led missions, a report said Wednesday. The statement by Yemen’s foreign minister,...

Six Red Cross workers have been killed and two others are missing in northern Afghanistan, the international charity said Wednesday, underscoring the growing dangers faced by aid workers in the war-battered country. They were killed in the volatile province of Jowzjan, the charity added,...

Syria's justice ministry on Wednesday dismissed as "completely false" an Amnesty International report alleging up to 13,000 people were hanged over five years in a Syrian government prison. The ministry said the Amnesty report was "completely untrue and intended to harm Syria's reputation in...

Syrian government jets bombed a rebel-held district of Homs city on Wednesday killing several people, rescue workers and a monitoring group reported. The raids hit the al-Waer neighborhood, the British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and the Syrian Civil Defence, a rescue service...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime on Wednesday has fired 6 Surface-to-surface missiles on al-Waer neighborhood of Homs city, killing 8 civilians, including a child and woman, local activists said. The missile attack has also left 25 people wounded in the last rebel stronghold in the...

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said on Wednesday he could be forced to suspend security cooperation with Israel if the ramp-up of Israeli settlements continued. "If the colonization continues, I would have no other choice, it would not be my fault," Abbas told France's Senate during a...

German police have evacuated a technical school in Borsdorf near the eastern city of Leipzig after an unknown man told students not to go into school because he had explosives in his backpack, a police spokesman said on Wednesday. The spokesman said the search was ongoing and police have yet...

 Syrian rebels and Turkish special forces have together made important progress in northern Syria in the fight against ISIS, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Wednesday. In a joint news conference with his Saudi counterpart in the Turkish capital of Ankara, Cavusoglu...

Israeli human rights groups are to petition the Supreme Court on Wednesday asking it to strike down a new law allowing expropriation of private Palestinian land for Jewish settlers. Adalah said that it and the Jerusalem Legal Aid and Human Rights Center would file the request on Wednesday...

Impeached President Park Geun-hye’s office on Wednesday threatened to withhold cooperation from prosecutors investigating her after details of their inquiry were leaked, local media reported. News reports claimed earlier that investigators would question Park over abuse of power allegations...

Iran is displaying hundreds of ancient and Persian artifacts, some dating back as far as 3,500 years and all of them recently brought back home from museums and collections in Western countries. Mohammad Hassan Talebian, deputy head of the Cultural Heritage, Handicrafts and Tourism...

Support for Scottish independence rose last month after British Prime Minister Theresa May came out in favor of Britain making a clean break with the European Union, a BMG survey for Herald Scotland showed on Wednesday. It indicated 49 percent of Scots now support independence - a 3 point...