President-elect Donald Trump appointed an experienced hand from the George W. Bush era to his national security circle Tuesday and a figure from the Trump Organization to make international deals. Thomas Bossert will become as assistant to the president for homeland security and...

Carrie Fisher, who rose to fame as Princess Leia in the "Star Wars" films and later endured drug addiction and stormy romances with show business heavyweights, died on Tuesday, her daughter said through a family spokesman. "It is with a very deep sadness that Billie Lourd confirms that her...

Russia said on Tuesday that a U.S. decision to ease restrictions on arming Syrian rebels had opened the way for deliveries of shoulder-fired anti-aircraft missiles, a move it said would directly threaten Russian forces in Syria. Moscow last year launched a campaign of air strikes in Syria to...

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said he has evidence that U.S.-led coalition forces give support to terrorist groups including the Islamic State and Kurdish militant groups YPG and PYD, he said on Tuesday. "They were accusing us of supporting Daesh (Islamic State)," he told a press...

About 400 peace activists were marching Tuesday from the outskirts of Berlin towards the devastated Syrian city of Aleppo, heading down the refugee trail in reverse. Organized by Polish journalist and blogger Anna Alboth, the "Civil March for Aleppo" aims to build political pressure to help...

Saudi Arabia should not be allowed to take part in the Syrian peace process, Iranian Defense Minister Hossein Dehghan told Russia's state-backed RT TV station in an interview, according to the RIA news agency Tuesday. He was cited as saying that he thought Saudi Arabia's insistence that...

A U.S.-backed alliance of militias fighting ISIS hopes a U.S. decision to ease some restrictions on arming groups in Syria will lead to them getting anti-aircraft missiles, its spokesman said Tuesday. Although ISIS does not have warplanes, the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) alliance wants...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Main rebel council in southern Daraa province, in statement issued Tuesday, rebuffed regime calls for reconciliations and laying arms down. The Free Daraa Council that governs rebel-held areas in the border province with Jordan said Daraa will stay the cradle of the Syrian...

Kurdish-led fighters are approaching a strategic dam controlled by ISIS in northern Syria after days of fighting that killed a senior ISIS military commander, a spokesman for the U.S.-backed forces and others said Tuesday. Talal Sillo of the Syria Democratic Forces said the fighters,...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- We do not contradict the truth if we say that 2016 is ISIS year in Homs Province. ISIS surprise attacks on Homs eastern countryside confused the regime and its mercenaries and their strategic alley, Russia. ISIS caused huge loss for regime in souls and military gear estimated...

Antonio Conte has challenged his Chelsea stars to use their club record run of 12 successive victories as the foundation to win the Premier League title. Conte's side moved seven points clear at the top after a 3-0 win over Bournemouth Monday and they are now just two more victories away...

(Zaman Al Wasl)-  A least 20 people, mostly of one family, have been killed in regime air strikes on the northern countryside of Deir Ezzor city, local activists said Tuesday. Activists Abdulmalek al-Ali said the family members who fled Hasaka province were all passed away in regime...

A Turkish court has put a broadcast ban on reporting of the investigation into last week's murder of the Russian ambassador to Ankara Andrei Karlov, state media said Tuesday. A Turkish policeman opened fire on Karlov while he was delivering a speech at the opening of a photography...

Hannibal Gadhafi, the son of former Libyan president Moammar Gadhafi, stood trial Tuesday on charges of defaming judiciary. Beirut judge Ghassan Khoury kicked off the court session, four days after Gadhafi was charged by Investigative Judge Zaher Hamadeh with defaming judiciary during...

Korean Air has given its flight attendants stun gun training following criticism from pop star Richard Marx for its handling of a violent passenger. The American singer said air crew were "clueless and not trained" as he stepped in to help deal with a "psycho" passenger who allegedly...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- A prominent commander of Ahrar al-Sham movement warned that the revolution is at crossing point and a decisive stage, where commanders’ decisions are extremely crucial, as no mistakes and experiments are allowed at this crucial period. Labib al-Nahas, head of the office of...

When surgeon Mounir Hakimi operated on five-month-old Maram in the Syrian province of Idlib last week, the horrific extent of her injuries quickly became clear. "She lost both her parents in an air strike, has multiple fractures, a wound in her abdomen, and has lost lots of skin,"...

 Mehdi Karroubi, a leading member of the Iranian opposition who has been under house arrest for almost six years, announced he is quitting his party, Iranian media reported on Tuesday. Karroubi and Mir Hossein Mousavi were reformist candidates during the 2009 presidential election, and...

The foreign ministers of Russia and Turkey agreed in a telephone conversation Tuesday to push for a ceasefire in Syria and to prepare for possible peace talks planned in the Kazakh capital of Astana, Russia's Foreign Ministry said in a statement. During the conversation "the importance...

Gunmen have kidnapped an Iraqi female journalist after posing as members of the security forces and bursting into her home in Baghdad, authorities said Tuesday. Afrah Shawqi Hammudi was abducted Monday at around 10:00 pm (1900 GMT) from her home in a southern neighborhood of the capital,...