Jordanian security forces have arrested a man suspected of funding an attack by ISIS that killed 10 people including a Canadian tourist, a security source said Wednesday. The suspect was detained in a raid on a house in Karak province Tuesday by police looking for the perpetrators behind...

A Japanese program aimed at accepting a small number of refugees from war-torn Syria promised Wednesday to remove language from documents which implied that pregnant women are not welcome to apply. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe announced in May that immigration-shy Japan, with a population of...

Seven-year-old Bana al-Abed, whose Twitter account gave a tragic description of the bombing of Aleppo in Syria, on Wednesday met Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan at his palace in Ankara. Erdogan received Bana and her family at his palace, the state-run Anadolu agency said,...

Three Turkish soldiers were killed in clashes near the ISIS-controlled town of al-Bab in northern Syria, to which Turkey-backed rebels are currently laying siege, Turkey's military said on Wednesday. Around 20 Turkish soldiers have been killed in the course of the "Euphrates Shield"...

(Washington Examiner)- In his year-end press conference, President Obama reflected on the tragedy that has befallen Aleppo, Syria, where Iranian-backed militias and Russian warplanes helped Syrian dictator Bashar Assad reclaim the city and conduct a crime against humanity rivaling Rwanda and...

"Where are you, Oh Arabs, Oh Muslims, while we are being slaughtered?" An old man's cry, in a video posted online from Aleppo's ruins, poses an uncomfortable question for the mainly Sunni Muslim Arab states backing rebels fighting President Bashar al-Assad and his allies Iran and Russia....

Syrian activists say the last buses meant to evacuate rebels and civilians from Aleppo have been delayed for nearly 24 hours. Reasons for the delay aren't clear. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which monitors the conflict through activists on the ground, says 60...

Five people were killed in a plane crash in Puerto Carreno, western Colombia early Wednesday. Colombia’s Civil Aviation Institution said a Boeing 727-200 cargo plane crashed three minutes after it took off from Puerto Carreno, close to the Venezuelan border, en route to the Colombian capital...

A massive explosion decimated a fireworks market outside the Mexican capital,  leaving it a charred wasteland and killing at least 31 people with dozens more injured. Television images showed a flurry of pyrotechnics exploding on Tuesday into the early afternoon sky as a giant plume of...

Police in Bahrain are clashing with residents of a besieged town that is home to a Shiite cleric. The cause for the confrontation on Wednesday in Diraz wasn't immediately clear. Residents of the town and activists say that riot police first massed outside, then entered the town. They...

China's smoggiest city closed schools Wednesday, as the country suffered through its sixth day under an oppressive haze, provoking public anger about the slow response to the threat to children's health. Since Friday, a choking miasma has covered a large swathe of northeastern China, leaving...

German police on Wednesday intensified a manhunt for the driver of a truck, who killed 12 people when he mowed into a Berlin Christmas market, and said they were following a number of good leads. After releasing a Pakistani asylum-seeker arrested near the scene, authorities warned that the...

An international watchdog says ISIS militants in Mosul are deliberately targeting civilians who refuse to join them as they retreat ahead of advancing Iraqi forces. Human Rights Watch also says that Mosul civilians are increasingly being caught in the crossfire, and that at least 19 have...

(Zaman al-Wasl)- Syrian regime forces have lost more than 75% of attack helicopters of different missions including mi-8, mi-17, mi-25, and gazelles, since the outbreak of the revolution in March 2011, well-informed source said. The source revealed that the regime has only less than 50...

(BBC)- As horrifying war reports are beamed out of Syria, a tiny radio station sends broadcasts in the other direction from Istanbul. Made up of Syrian exiles, the team gathers news from citizen journalists on the ground and has branched out into dramas and comedy shows. But they say the most...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD) launched on Tuesday raid and arrest campaign chasing young men in Ras al-Ayn area in Hasaka province, local activists said. Activist Abdulmalek al-Ali from Hasaka Media Center said that PYD patrols and Asayish launched extensive arrest...

Turkey-backed Syrian rebel forces besieging ISIS-controlled al-Bab have gained full control of the highway linking the town to Aleppo with intense ground and air fire support, the Turkish military said on Wednesday. In its daily round-up of the near four-month-old "Euphrates Shield"...

(The Guardian)- At least 60 people have been injured after an explosion ripped through Mexico’s best-known fireworks market on the northern outskirts of the capital. Luís Felipe Puente, head of national emergency services, said the number of injuries could rise. Images broadcast by...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Activists voiced concern over Iran and it's Shiite militias practices as Iran's flag and many sectarian banners have been occupying the collapsed eastern Aleppo, saying Iran is deepening the rift with the Syrian people. Sources told Zaman al-Wasl that no Syrian flag and...

Russia, Iran and Turkey said they were ready to help broker a Syrian peace deal after the three countries held talks in Moscow on Tuesday and adopted a declaration which set out the principles any agreement should adhere to. The countries made the announcement after Russian Foreign Minister...