Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas hopes the upcoming Mideast conference in France will set a mechanism to end Israeli settlements in territory Palestinians claim for a state. His public remarks were his first since the recent U.N. Security Council resolution that condemned settlements as a...

Russia's Foreign Ministry said Tuesday it viewed a U.S. decision to ease restrictions on weapons supplies to Syrian rebels as a "hostile act" which threatened the safety of Russian warplanes and military personnel, the RIA news agency reported. RIA quoted the ministry as saying the...

An Indian plane carrying 161 passengers and crew skidded off the runway at Goa airport early Tuesday, injuring 15 people. The Indian Navy, which runs the airport in western India, said it was not yet clear what caused the Jet Airways plane to veer off the runway. The incident happened at...

The Syrian army escalated aerial bombing of a rebel-held valley northwest of Damascus in an offensive begun last week to recapture the strategic area where a major spring provides most of the capital's water supplies, rebels and residents said Tuesday. They said the army shelled and...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- A series of security penetrations within rebels’ factions have been found, and played essential role in falling of areas under armed opposition control or assassination of many commanders of different factions. A special source has provided Zaman al-Wasl information and...

Iraqi forces will resume their push against Islamic State inside Mosul in the coming days, a U.S. battlefield commander said, in a new phase of the two-month-old operation that will see American troops deployed closer to the front line in the city. The battle for Mosul, involving 100,000...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's plans over Syria will concentrate on forming an army of indigenous fighters, mostly tribesmen, in northeastern Syria and setting up a safe Zone with support of Gulf states, a well-informed source said Monday. The Russia-beloved tycoon and...

(Sky News)- Divers have found more fragments from the military plane which crashed into the Black Sea with 92 people on board, Russia's emergency ministry has said. More than 3,000 rescuers have been involved in the search after the plane came down on its way to Syria, according to the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Wadi Barda valley, northwest the capital, seems to have the same fate of Eastern Aleppo, as one of the godfathers participated in the Aleppo defeat agreement has openly announced his offer to repeat what happened in the war-torn city and to reach an agreement with rebels to...

The shock announcement of Afghanistan's first woman fixed-wing pilot to seek asylum in the US has touched off a spirited national debate on the country's most vexing issues: insecurity, women's rights and mass exodus of young people. Niloofar Rahmani, a 25-year-old pilot lionised widely as...

Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi will pick a regulator and members of a new media council under a law passed Monday, giving the body the power to fine or suspend publications and broadcasters and give or revoke licences for foreign media. The law, approved by parliament and signed...

At least five Daesh members were captured alive in an operation carried out Monday by the Iraqi army’s 16th division and Nineveh Guards Force, according to an officer in the Iraqi army. Iraqi army’s Brig. Gen. Mahmoud Saad Zubeiri told Anadolu Agency that "a joint fighting force of army’s...

Chile's government set to work on Monday repairing roads and restoring electricity to southern regions affected by a major earthquake that struck on Christmas Day, frightening thousands but resulting in no fatalities or major damage. The quake, a magnitude 7.6 centered off Chiloe Island...

Benjamin Netanyahu has been unrelenting in his criticism of the Obama administration over what he condemned as its "shameful" decision not to veto a U.N. Security Council resolution calling for a halt to Israeli settlement-building. But with the clock ticking down on Barack Obama's...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- In Hasaka  this year, Christmas celebration for the Syriac and Assyrians were restricted to big cities only, while usual greetings and visits were too limit, and celebrations almost disappeared from villages of Khabour river in Western North countryside of the city due to...

The number of evacuees from Aleppo, Syria to the opposition-held city of Idlib over the last three weeks has reached 44,000 as a result of Turkey's intense diplomatic efforts, Turkey’s presidential spokesman said Monday. "Currently, every step is being taken to provide basic humanitarian aid...

Iraqi forces will resume their push against ISIS inside Mosul in the coming days, a U.S. battlefield commander said, in a new phase of the two-month-old operation that will see American troops deployed closer to the front line in the city. The battle for Mosul, involving 100,000 Iraqi...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- New information showed the security penetration of al-Tawhid Brigade by the Syrian regime intelligence, which resulted in killing Abdelqader al-Saleh, known as “Hajji Marea” by a Syrian air force bombing raid November 13, 2013 while he was in a meeting with commanders of the...

A suicide bomber attacked a cattle market on Monday in Maiduguri in northeastern Nigeria, the city worst hit by Boko Haram's seven-year insurgency, the police and a witness said. Police said the bomber, who struck the Kasuwan Shanu market in the central district of Kasuwa, was dead but did...

President Barack Obama said on Sunday it had been the "privilege of my life" to serve as U.S. commander in chief and promised his continued gratitude and commitment to service members and their families during a Christmas Day visit to Marine Corps Base Hawaii. "Although this will be my last...