Israeli police made seven arrests overnight following an unruly protest against the manslaughter conviction of a soldier for shooting dead a wounded Palestinian assailant, police said Sunday. Those detained are accused of public order offences during a demonstration outside the Jerusalem...

 Barack Obama travels to Chicago for his farewell speech Tuesday, returning to the town where his meteoric rise to become America's first black president all began. The third largest U.S. city is also important to his post-presidency: it will be home to the Obama presidential library...

Five people were killed and 27 others injured Sunday when a bus carrying Portuguese tourists crashed off a highway in central France known locally as the "road of death", authorities said. The 40-seat bus was on its way to Switzerland when tragedy struck, the local Creusot-Info website said....

Pope Francis says he realises he may be the target of an attack but that he will continue to travel without bulletproof vehicles or heavy security because he wants to get close to people. Unlike his predecessors, who used bulletproof popemobiles or limousines, Francis uses ordinary cars on...

In a former high school classroom in this northeastern Syrian town, about 250 Arab recruits for the U.S.-backed war against the Islamic State were being prepped by Kurdish instructors to receive military training from American troops.  Most of the recruits were from villages surrounding...

A total of 16 civilians were killed Sunday when Daesh terrorists carried out attacks in the Iraq city of Mosul, according to the country's military sources. A howitzer attack carried out by the terrorists in a northeastern neighborhood of the province left 11 people dead. Separately, at...

In Southern Damascus, either die of poverty, hunger, of join Islamic State (Eqtsad)- People of capital's southern suburbs have bee endured to severe living condition amid soar of prices and lack of job opportunities. Residents said most goods and basic staples are available but most people...

Syrian refugees in Lebanon are "barely coping", with half of children out of school and more families falling into poverty, a UN study has found. Some 1.5 million Syrians seeking refuge in Lebanon remain highly vulnerable, even after three years of living there, and their economic situation...

(The Telegraph)- Theresa May has revealed her vision for “the shared society” as she declares that government has a duty to intervene and correct “burning injustices” in modern Britain .  Writing exclusively for The Telegraph, Mrs May says that government should not just “get out of the...

(The Guardian)- Soldiers in Bouaké, Ivory Coast have opened fire and trapped the country’s defence minister inside a local official’s house shortly after a deal to end a two-day mutiny appeared to have been agreed, a Reuters witness said. The turn of events came just an hour and a half after...

The young prince leading Saudi Arabia's drive for economic reform has laid out a three-pronged strategy to avoid a backlash from any religious conservatives opposed to his plan, according to remarks reported by Foreign Affairs magazine on Saturday. Deputy Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman,...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- ISIS launched Saturday major attack on U.S.-backed militias north of its stronghold of Raqqa province, as the Kurdish-led forces press new advances in the western countryside, local activists said. Activist Yasser al-Jasem said the radical group attacked Tel al-Samen town and...

(Middle East Eye)- Allowing aid into besieged areas of Syria has proven to be a successful diplomatic tool for negotiating, but civilians always pay the price for these truces On 13 December 2016, Bashar Jaafari, the current permanent representative of Syria to the United Nations, declared:...

At least five people, including three soldiers were killed and 13 others wounded when twin bomb blasts targeted a busy restaurant in the Somali capital Mogadishu on Saturday, according to government officials. Abdifatah Omar Hallane, a spokesman for Banadir region in Mogadishu, told Anadolu...

The United States warned its citizens against visiting the tourist destination of Gambia on Saturday, and told those there to considering leaving, citing the risk of unrest as President Yahya Jammeh digs in despite losing an election. "The U.S. Department of State warns U.S. citizens against...

The US authorities are not ruling out "the terrorism angle" as a potential motive of the Iraq war veteran accused of killing five people at the Fort Lauderdale International Airport, officials said Saturday. Police interrogated the suspect, 26-year-old Esteban Santiago, throughout much of...

Real Madrid tied Barcelona's Spanish record of 39 games unbeaten in all competitions by crushing Granada 5-0 in La Liga on Saturday. Francisco "Isco" Alarcon scored twice and Cristiano Ronaldo, Karim Benzema, and Casemiro added on at Santiago Bernabeu Stadium. Madrid was six points ahead...

Coalition warplanes killed 27 civilians in airstrikes in Iraq’s Mosul city on Saturday, an Iraqi doctor said. Dr. Ahmed Raid al-Hamadani, an official with Mosul operations' mobile hospitals unit, told Anadolu Agency: “As far as we have learnt from eyewitnesses, a civilian convey of 10...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian military police clashed with residents of al-Da'tour neighborhood in coastal Latakia city who refuse to join the army and its backed militias, eye-witnesses said. The poor neighborhood that inhabits by the Murshidis sect, a tiny minority diverted from the Bashar...

The Syrian regime on Saturday decided a plan of works to restore services, industry and security to the war-ravaged northern city of Aleppo, state media reported. Aleppo, split into a government-held west and rebel-held east since the early days of the almost six-year Syrian conflict, became...