A senior Turkish official says two-thirds of a border wall to prevent infiltration from Syria has been completed, and that authorities had prevented a few attempts to dig tunnels underneath the wall. Deputy Prime Minister Veysi Kaynak said Wednesday the entire project would be finished in...

Iran will build a mobile phone network and petrol terminal in Syria under deals signed in Tehran Tuesday during a visit by Prime Minister Imad Khamis, Iranian media reported. The five deals include a “license for a mobile phone operator, the transfer of 5,000 hectares for the creation of a...

(The Guardian)- Jürgen Klopp will consult Liverpool’s lawyers over whether to select Joël Matip at Plymouth Argyle amid concern the defender’s inclusion could result in the club’s expulsion from the FA Cup. The Liverpool manager is in the farcical position of needing legal advice over his...

(Eqtsad)- Syrian investors to be granted the Turkish citizenship very soon since the authorities have issued new adjustments in the laws make the red passport easy to get for men with cash bags and not just Syrians only, experts said. Turkish authorities had legislated granting Turkish...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Islamic State forces launched major attack against regime forces and its mercenaries’ locations in Deir Ez Zor with the hope of expelling the regime forces and gaining sole control of the province. The regime officers and soldiers in Deir Ez Zor, especially those in the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Russian military police killed two members of the Iraqi al-Baqr militia in al-Halwaniyah neighborhood in eastern Aleppo last week while a Russian military member was injured during the clash, sources said. The clash erupted when the Russian army stopped a truck loaded with...

The United States on Tuesday scolded its ally Bahrain over the recent executions of three Shiites who had been sentenced to death for a deadly bomb attack on police. The executions have ignited major demonstrations and rekindled tensions between the Shiite majority and Sunni rulers of the...

Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said late Tuesday that his government opposed the United States joining Syrian peace talks to be held in Kazakhstan next week, local media reported. "We are hostile to their presence and we have not invited them," Zarif said, according to the...

A South Korean judge questioned Samsung Group leader Jay Y. Lee behind closed doors on Wednesday to decide whether he should be arrested over his alleged role in a corruption scandal that led parliament to impeach President Park Geun-hye. Lee, 48, in dark overcoat and purple necktie, did not...

Two terrorists have been "neutralized" in a police operation in Turkey's eastern province of Van early Wednesday, according to police sources. Anti-terrorism and special forces units of Van Provincial Police Department raided a house in Edremit district where two PKK members were reportedly...

More than 80 percent of members of a U.S. business lobby in China say foreign companies are less welcome than in the past, a survey released on Wednesday showed, with most saying they have little confidence in China's vows to open its markets. The American Chamber of Commerce in China's...

Alone in her room at an overcrowded retirement home in Damascus, Naz Ashiti thumbs through photographs of her daughters overseas, her eyes lingering on features she has not seen in years. Sending ageing family members to a retirement home was once unthinkable for most Syrians, but...

Brazilian authorities are scrambling to stop a wave of prison violence that has killed at least 125 inmates in two weeks, many with their heads cut off or their hearts and intestines ripped out. Three massacres and many smaller fatal clashes, all in northern states, have followed a pattern that...

(Eqtsad)- Islamic State forces announced an auction to rent the Shaer gas field in the eastern countryside of Homs, activists said as the radical group fears the U.S.-led Coalition air strikes and seeks a rapid cash. Activist Judet al-Jiran said ISIS has resembled what is popularly known as...

(New York Times)- President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia declared on Tuesday that the political memo alleging that the Kremlin had sought for years to influence President-elect Donald J. Trump was “fake,” and he said that the effort to compile such a dossier was further evidence of the political...

Russia is engaging in aggressive and destabilizing actions that are threatening the rules-based international order, Samantha Power said Tuesday in her last major speech as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. In a blistering and detailed critique of Russia's foreign and military policies,...

(CNN)- The Defense Department is prepared to provide the new administration with military options to accelerate the war against ISIS in Syria that could send additional US troops into direct combat, CNN has learned. These options would inherently increase the risk for US troops compared to...

Syrian Prime Minister Imad Khamis visited Tehran on Tuesday where he met with Iranian First Vice-President Ishaq Jahangiri, the latter said in an official press statement.  Speaking at a joint news conference, Khamis said Syria had stood by Iran during the latter’s eight-year war with...

Syrians in northwestern Idlib cast their ballots on Tuesday for members of the first civilian council to run their city, two years after it was overrun by rebels and extremists. Government forces were expelled from Idlib city in March 2015 by the Army of Conquest, led by the Fateh al-Sham...

Cairo will do all it can to preserve crucial ties with Saudi Arabia, experts say, after an Egyptian court ruled against government plans to transfer control of two islands to Riyadh. Strains between the two Sunni Arab allies have grown in recent months, in particular over Cairo's...