(The Independent)- The World Food Programme (WFP) has been forced to cut food rations to 1.4 million people because the world’s richest countries have delayed paying the organisation.  The food rations of 1.4 million Iraqis, displaced in the war against Isis, had to be halved this month...

took his first step toward resettlement in the United States three months ago, submitting to an initial round of security screenings. His dreams of a better life were crushed when President Donald Trump issued an indefinite ban on displaced Syrians entering the United States....

President Donald Trump attacked two major U.S. newspapers in a Twitter blast on a busy Saturday when he was scheduled to speak with five world leaders, including Russia's Vladimir Putin. Trump criticized The New York Times and The Washington Post as being dishonest in a series of tweets that...

Five Iraqi passengers and one Yemeni were barred from boarding an EgyptAir flight from Cairo to New York on Saturday after President Donald Trump halted the entry of citizens from seven Muslim-majority countries, sources at Cairo airport said. The passengers, arriving in transit to Cairo...

Yemeni government forces have advanced into the Red Sea town of Mokha but Shiite rebels are still putting up fierce resistance, a military official said Saturday. Forces loyal to President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi, backed by a Saudi-led coalition, captured the police headquarters and several...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Islamic State on Saturday launched new attack on regime forces southeast of Deir Ezzor military airport, taking advantage of an intense storm sweeping the eastern area. ISIS fighters who seek to seize the airport used car bombs in hitting regime bastions amid reports of...

The United Nations refugee agency and International Organization for Migration (IOM) called on the Trump administration Saturday to continue offering asylum to people fleeing war and persecution, saying its resettlement program was vital. U.S. President Donald Trump Friday put a four-month...

Syrian regime forces entered the village of Ain al-Fija near Damascus Saturday and took control from rebels of a spring and pumping station that supply most of the capital's water, a military media unit run by Lebanese group Hezbollah said. A monitoring group said the Syrian army had...

Two Iraqi soldiers were killed when a suicide bombing struck a security checkpoint in the western city of Fallujah on Saturday, according to a local police officer.  A bomber detonated his explosives-laden vehicle at the checkpoint in the city’s western entrance, police officer Ahmed...

A Russian-built Soyuz rocket blasted off from French Guiana and successfully placed into orbit a Spanish telecommunications satellite, the French launch company Arianespace said. It said the rocket took off from the Guiana Space Center at 10:30 pm local time Friday (0130 GMT Saturday)....

Fresh from talks with US President Donald Trump, British Prime Minister Theresa May will meet Turkish leaders in Ankara Saturday, hoping to expand ties and seal a new trading relationship before Britain leaves the EU. On a one-day visit to the Turkish capital, her first since becoming...

(Wall Street Journal)- Facebook Inc. Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg on Friday publicly opposed two executive orders signed by President Donald Trump aiming to curtail immigration and bolster border security, contrasting with the neutral stance the tech executive has taken since the election....

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian refugees in Lebanese town of Arsal have been alone in the face of the Kim storm where snow has swept their tents worn tents. Arsal hosts around 100,000 Syrian refugees 1600 distributed to 124 camps which include around 5,000 tents. Zaman al-Wasl reporter in the area...

(New York Times)- On April 30, 1941, a Jewish man here in Amsterdam wrote a desperate letter to an American friend, pleading for help emigrating to the United States. “U.S.A. is the only country we could go to,” he wrote. “It is for the sake of the children mainly.” A volunteer...

(Daily Mail)- Iraqi forces say they have uncovered a terrifying arsenal of weapons including mustard gas at an ISIS arms warehouse in Mosul. The weapons were found among dozens of rockets hidden in a storage unit in the city with Iraqi troops claiming the haul presented a 'huge chemical...

The versatile actor Sir John Hurt, who could move audiences to tears in "The Elephant Man," terrify them in "Alien," and spoof that very same scene in "Spaceballs," has died. He was 77. Hurt, who battled pancreatic cancer, died Friday in London according to his agent Charles McDonald....

European shares pulled back Friday with UBS dragging bank stocks lower after posting a drop in full-year profit, while Britain’s biggest supermarket Tesco surged after a 3.7 billion pound ($4.7 billion) takeover deal to buy a supplier. The pan-European STOXX 600 index was down 0.3 percent at its...

When President Donald Trump was elected last November, Republican lawmakers enthusiastically joined his call to rewrite the tax code and dismantle Obamacare in the first 100 days of his presidency. But as congressional Republicans gathered for an annual policy retreat in Philadelphia on...

President Donald Trump on Friday put a four-month hold on allowing refugees into the United States and temporarily barred visitors from Syria and six other Muslim-majority countries, saying the moves would help protect Americans from terrorist attacks. The order limiting entry on visitors from...

(Eqtsad)- The fuel crisis has been increased in the northeastern Hasaka province as the powerful PYD militia controls most of the petrol stations. Residents in Hasaka said that long queues of people waiting in front of petrol stations with their containers to receive 30 litres, the allowed...