At least 25,000 people have left the bombed-out eastern districts of Aleppo since evacuations began last week, the International Committee of the Red Cross said on Tuesday. "Yesterday (Monday) only, we evacuated 15,000 people from east Aleppo. If we consider those evacuated on Thursday...

Egypt's state news agency says a 10-year-old girl who was critically wounded in the suicide bombing at a Cairo church earlier this month, has died of her wounds. The fatality raises the death toll from the attack to 27. Egypt's ISIS affiliate has claimed responsibility for the bombing,...

At least 22 people were killed in clashes between government forces and rebels on the outskirts of the flashpoint city of Taez in southwest Yemen, military sources said Tuesday. The fighting late Monday north of Taez, held by loyalists but partly surrounded by Shiite Houthis and their rebel...

China has returned a US underwater probe it seized in the South China Sea, the Pentagon confirmed after Beijing's capture of the craft prompted a dispute between the two powers. The Chinese navy handed over the drone near the location it had been seized, the Pentagon said, repeating US...

The United States on Tuesday closed its missions to Turkey for the day after a shooting incident overnight outside the American embassy in Ankara that followed the assassination of the Russian ambassador in the Turkish capital. "An individual approached the US Embassy Ankara main gate and...

German police said Tuesday they were treating as "a probable terrorist attack" the killing of 12 people when a lorry ploughed through a packed Berlin Christmas market. Dozens more were wounded Monday when the truck tore through the crowd, smashing through wooden stalls and crushing victims,...

 Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said in a statement that a meeting in Moscow later on Tuesday between the foreign ministers of Iran, Turkey and Russia would adopt tangible measures on Syria. Lavrov also condemned the murder of Russia's ambassador to Turkey Andrei Karlov on...

Thousands of traumatized Syrians left the rebel enclave of Aleppo Monday as the UN voted to deploy observers there and said it planned new peace talks in Geneva in February. "It is the intention of the United Nations to convene those negotiations in Geneva on 8 February 2017," UN envoy...

Several villages held by Islamic State have been captured by the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), a coalition of militias backed by the United States that includes a strong Kurdish contingent, an organisation that monitors the war said on Monday. The advance is part of a military campaign...

Reporting by Abdul Karim Ayoub (Eqtsad)- Losing gas-rich territory to ISIS favor last week along with the historic city of Palmyra in the eastern countryside of Homs province has made the pro-regime areas unable to carry new economic burdens due to the hike in fuel and gas prices....

The assassination of Russia's envoy to Turkey will likely not harm warming bilateral ties but its impact will be felt more in Syria, according to analysts surveyed by AFP. The Turkish and Russian leaders spoke immediately after the event and Turkey's foreign minister voiced its determination...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- A state of resentment prevailed among the population following sudden increase of fuel prices due to extreme shortage of fuel in the markets in conjunction with a wave of cold and snow hitting the areas of Hasaka province. Activist Malaz al-Yousef said that the shortage of...

At least 57 journalists have been killed around the world in 2016 while doing their job, Reporters Without Borders said on Monday. The press freedom group said 19 were killed in Syria alone, followed by 10 in Afghanistan, nine in Mexico and five in Iraq. Almost all of those...

“Responsibility for this brutality lies in one place alone, with the Assad regime and its allies, Russia and Iran,” President Obama said last week of the barbarity in Aleppo, Syria, “and this blood and these atrocities are on their hands.” My journalism students and I here in Dubai follow...

A man stormed into a Zurich mosque and opened fire on people praying on Monday evening, injuring three people, police said. Two of the three men - aged 30, 35 and 56 years - were seriously injured, Zurich city police said. The suspect, a man around the age of 30 years old according to...

Turkish police detained Monday the sister and mother of the gunman who shot dead the Russian ambassador at an art gallery in the Turkish capital, broadcaster CNN Turk reported. It said the two women were detained in the southwestern Turkish province of Aydin....

Several people were killed and up to 50 injured when a truck ploughed into a crowd at a Christmas market in Berlin on Monday evening, the Berliner Morgenpost reported. German media said police on the ground were saying first indications were that the incident was an attack....

Saudi Arabian Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir told the Arab League Monday that if world powers fail to pressure the Syrian regime there will be no political solution to the war. "The question is not how we reach a political solution; we all want that. The question is how we can enforce...

Tunisia's government said Monday initial evidence showed a foreign organization could have been behind the assassination last week of a Tunisian national who Palestinian Hamas group said was one of its drone experts. Mohammed Zawari was killed in his car by multiple gunshots in front of his...

The gunman who shot the Russian ambassador to Turkey in an attack at an art gallery Monday was an off-duty police officer who worked in the Turkish capital, two security sources told Reuters. Russia's foreign ministry earlier confirmed that the ambassador, Andrey Karlov, had died in the...