(Daily Mail)- ISIS have amputated the hands of two boys aged ten and 12 who refused to execute two civilians in front of their families in Mosul. Fanatics trained up a group of children from its stronghold in western parts of the city to fight against advancing Iraqi troops. But two...

U.S. immigration officials have postponed interviews with asylum seekers in an Australian camp on the Pacific island of Nauru since President Trump's executive order on immigration, suggesting Washington is already blocking progress on a controversial refugee resettlement deal. The deal...

(Sky News)- Prime Minister Theresa May will promise that the UK will remain a "reliable partner" when she meets her EU counterparts in Malta today. Mrs May will attend part of the EU Presidency Summit in Valletta but will not be present when the rest of the leaders discuss Brexit....

 The White House warned the Israeli government Thursday to stop announcing plans to build new settlements in the occupied West Bank, appearing to open a breach in the extraordinarily warm relationship between President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu....

One of the boys in the seven-member Syrian family due to arrive in suburban Washington this week would have slept under a duvet dyed in the red, white and blue of the US flag, a centerpiece for the room in which he was to start his new life. The apartment was furnished, the kitchen...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Tension persists in Idlib and Aleppo provinces following the clashes between Ahrar al-Sham brigade and the newly-formed Haya't Tahrir al-Sham (al-Sham Liberation Committee). Each side accuses the other of committing transgressions on a daily basis especially in Idlib’s...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Thirty five years since the darkest pages in the Syrian history have been written by the regime when about 40,000 people brutally killed in the central city of Hama. The bloody repression by the regime army was not against the armed uprising by the Muslim Brotherhood in...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Thursday rebuked German Chancellor Angela Merkel for using the expression "Islamist terrorism", saying the phrase was not correct and saddened Muslims. Speaking after a critical bilateral meeting with Erdogan, Merkel spoke of the need for Turkey and...

Syrian musician Kinan Azmeh has toured the world for years to international acclaim but his planned return on Thursday to his home in the United States has been thrown into uncertainty. The clarinettist and composer, who won standing ovations in Beirut on Wednesday night at the final...

The U.N. envoy for Iraq says military operations to liberate Iraq from ISIS will be coming to an end "in the rather short foreseeable future." Jan Kubis told the U.N. Security Council Thursday that "the days of the so-called ISIL are counted," using one of the acronymns for the militant...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Islamic State fighters launched attack on regime-held Kuweiris military airbase in northern Aleppo province, the group’s Amaq news agency said Thursday. The attack on Kuweiris, It was used for educational purposes mainly, is fourth on regime bases in few weeks by ISIS. No...

Midfielder Nemanja Matic said there is a lot at stake for Chelsea when Arsenal visit Stamford Bridge Saturday as they are eager make amends for their embarrassing 3-0 loss to their London rivals in September. The loss to Arsenal, however, forced manager Antonio Conte to switch to a 3-4-3...

More than 1,400 migrants have been rescued in the Mediterranean within 24 hours, Italy's coast guard said Thursday, as EU leaders prepared for a summit on stemming the flow of boats from North Africa to Europe. The coast guard said more than 1,300 people had been rescued Wednesday from 13...

An Afghan woman whose husband cut off her ears said Thursday she was seeking donations for treatment abroad, as activists condemned the latest gruesome incident to highlight the abuse of women in the conservative country. Zarina, 23, was still hospitalised in the northern city of...

A top adviser to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said Thursday Iran will not yield to U.S. threats over a ballistic missile test. Iran said Wednesday it had tested a new ballistic missile but said it did not breach a nuclear deal reached with six major powers in 2015 or a U.N. Security...

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko vowed Thursday to hold a referendum on NATO membership amid renewed tensions with Russia. "As the president, I act in accordance with the views of my people, and I will hold a referendum on the question of NATO membership," Poroshenko said in an interview...

Russian plane maker Sukhoi has repaired defects in 20 Superjet 100 aircraft that were grounded in December by airlines including Russia's Aeroflot and Mexico's Interjet, the company said Thursday. Checks by Russia's aviation authority were instigated in late December after a defect was...

The Syrian army said Thursday that recent advances against ISIS northeast of Aleppo were a starting point for further operations to drive the extremist group back and extend government control in the area. The army's general command said in a statement it had recently recaptured more than 30...

U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said he would sound out ally South Korea on efforts to address North Korea's nuclear and missile programs as he arrived in Seoul Thursday, including plans to deploy a U.S. missile defense system there. Mattis' visit comes amid concern that the North may be...

Turkish warplanes killed 51 ISIS militants in operations over the last 24 hours, the military said in a statement Thursday. Warplanes destroyed 85 ISIS targets in the areas of al-Bab, Tadif, Kabbasin and Bzagah, including buildings and vehicles. Turkey launched an operation,...