Israel announced Tuesday night the construction of 3,000 settlement homes in the occupied West Bank, the fourth such announcement in the less than two weeks since the inauguration of US President Donald Trump. "Defence Minister Avigdor Lieberman and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu have...

(BBC)- Mariam Hammad, despite every adversity of war and hardship, is trying to be a student in Aleppo in the dark heart of Syria's civil war. "My city has turned to ruins," she says. Despite being in constant danger, forced out of her home twice by shelling and living without...

The Philippine defense ministry asked President Rodrigo Duterte on Wednesday to issue an order for the military to take part in his war on drugs, including granting troops powers to arrest "scalawag" members of the police. Duterte said in a speech to army generals on Tuesday that he wanted...

The United Nations envoy for Syria on Tuesday said he asked the Security Council to postpone the UN facilitated talks that had been scheduled for 8 February in Geneva until 20 February, in order to give the war-torn country’s opposition time to unite and come as one group. “We want to give a...

(Sky News)- President Trump appears to have softened his controversial travel ban in the face of global outrage and also some dissent in his own government. Some 872 refugees will be able to enter the US this week as stopping them would cause "undue hardship", say officials. The decision...

San Francisco filed a lawsuit on Tuesday challenging President Donald Trump's executive order directing the U.S. government to withhold money from cities that have adopted sanctuary policies toward undocumented immigrants. The lawsuit, filed by San Francisco City Attorney Dennis Herrera,...

A Pennsylvania family fighting to have their relatives return to the United States after they were detained at Philadelphia International Airport and sent back overseas under the immigration order told "NBC Nightly News" that they voted for Donald Trump. “I understand he wants to make...

A young Syrian girl whose heartfelt offer to donate her eyes to her blinded father touched the world met President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday. Dema Nasir, whose father Mamoon Khaled Nasir also lost his legs and several fingers in a barrel bomb attack, was greeted by Erdogan and his wife...

On any given day at MacDill Air Force Base, web crawlers scour social media for potential recruits to ISIS. Then, in a high-stakes operation to counter the extremists' propaganda, language specialists employ fictitious identities and try to sway the targets from joining ISIS ranks. At least...

(Daily Mail)- These chilling pictures inside newly-liberated eastern Mosul show the bodies of dead ISIS fighters laying rotting in the streets.  On the banks of the Tigris River, just 600 metres from active ISIS positions, waste water trickles around a militant's corpse, lying rotting...

After nearly 24 hours of exhausting travel from war-ravaged Syria, the Abu Assaleh family arrived in Philadelphia, brimming with excitement to begin their new life in the United States. The Christian family of eight had waited more than 13 years since first applying for the immigration visas...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- About 700 rebel fighters have defected from the Nour al-Din al-Zinki group, joining Faylaq al-Sham near the Turkish border as their group preferred to take place in a newly-formed alliance including al Qaeda's former branch , sources said Tuesday. Several Islamist...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 7 regime officers, including three military engineers, killed in an ISIS attack on Sayqal military airbase east of Damascus, the group's news agency and pro-regime media said. Amaq agency said the Islamic State's militiamen have taken control of air defense...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime has transferred a squadron of Su-22 from Shuairat airport in central Homs province to al-Nairab airport in Aleppo province to bolster army and allied militias in their offensive against ISIS and Free Syrian Army, sources said. The Syrian regime seeks to...

(Activist Post)- The Trump administration caused major consternation amid the pro-Syria community when it announced, in the context of Trump’s executive order on refugees, that it was directing the Pentagon and Department of Defense to begin drawing up a plan to create “safe zones” in Syria...

Morocco's King Mohammed VI took a seat at the African Union headquarters Tuesday for the first time in 33 years after being re-admitted by the bloc. "It is a beautiful day when one returns home after too long an absence. Africa is my continent and my home. I am finally home and I am happy to...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Lawyer Abdullah al-Khalil disappeared in mid-May 2013, 75 days after al-Raqqah was liberated and the regime forces expelled.  Al-Khalil was one of the most prominent figures in the revolutionary movement in al-Raqqah and most of the eastern area. He disappeared, and...

The U.S.-led coalition against Islamic State has supplied its Syrian allies with armored vehicles for the first time, expanding support since U.S. President Donald Trump came to office, a spokesman for the Syrian groups told Reuters on Tuesday. The armored vehicles and troop carriers had...

The United Nations has restarted air drops of food to support 93,500 Syrians besieged by Islamic State in the city of Deir al-Zor, the U.N. World Food Program said on Tuesday. Air drops were halted on Jan. 15 after Islamic State militants cut the besieged zone in two and overran the drop...

EU nations can reject asylum seekers who have taken part in a terrorist group's activities even if their role was confined to logistics, the bloc's top court ruled Tuesday. The European Court of Justice ruled against a Moroccan whose request for asylum in Belgium was rejected after a Belgian...