The United States is sending 200 additional military personnel to Syria to help the campaign to drive the Islamic State militant group from Raqqa, U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter said on Saturday. Speaking in Bahrain at the Manama Dialogue conference on Middle East security, Carter said...

(The Guardian)- The fall of Aleppo will neither end the conflict nor bring more stability to the country. The continuing offensive by the Syrian regime to capture the rest of the eastern side of the city has led to the capture of about 75% of the rebel-held area. But the regime’s swift advances...

Two female suicide bombers struck at a busy market in Nigeria on Friday, killing at least 30 people, the military said, in the latest bloodshed to hit the country's restive northeast. While there was no immediate claim of responsibility, the blasts bore all the hallmarks of Boko Haram, which...

(Marca)- Deportivo La Coruna coach Gaizka Garitano will be able to play one of his star players Raul Albentosa at the Estadio Santiago Bernabeu on Saturday evening, with the centre-back having overcome the hip injury that saw him leave training early on Thursday. He makes the team's 18-man...

The European Union said on Friday it would introduce more sanctions on Syrian individuals and entities over the offensive on Aleppo, where Syrian government forces with the backing of Russia and Iran have been pushing out rebels. "The EU will act swiftly ... with the aim of imposing further...

President Barack Obama has ordered for a waiver for restrictions on military aid to foreign forces and groups in Syria that are helping U.S. operations in that country, the White House said. “I hereby determine that the transaction, encompassing the provision of defense articles and services...

The Syrian regime army declared a ceasefire in several areas around Damascus and the northwestern province of Idlib beginning on Friday evening, but did not say how long the pause in fighting would last. There was no immediate comment from rebels on the truce. The areas affected...

(Zaman Al Wasl- Reuters)- At least 25 civilians, mostly women and children, have been killed on Friday in barrel bombs attack targeted the neighborhood of al-Jaloom in Aleppo city, residents and Civil Defense rescuing group said. Two children were also killed in air strikes hit al-Maéadi...

The World Health Organization (WHO) on Friday urged U.S. President-elect Donald Trump to expand Obamacare and ensure all Americans have access to healthcare. The real estate magnate takes office next month after promising to repeal outgoing President Barack Obama's signature healthcare...

The U.S.-led anti-Daesh coalition destroyed 168 oil tanker trucks belonging to the terror group near Palmyra, Syria, American Central Command announced Friday. The strike Thursday was “the largest air strike of its kind to date”, the military said. "The Coalition continues to forcefully...

(Eqtsad)- Abo Mohammed, a farmer from Jabal al-Akrad in the countryside of Latakia, used to produce dozens of tons of apples and peach, but now he relies on cigarettes wrapping for a shop in Antakya to earn some money to cover living cost.  He works for more than 10 hours a day to...

(Sky News)- Hundreds of men are reportedly missing in the Syrian city of Aleppo after government forces retook rebel areas. The men, aged mainly between 30 and 50, have not been heard from since they left their areas in the east of the city up to 10 days ago. Government forces have...

The European Union's senior official for new memberships on Friday expressed concern about rising nationalist rhetoric and divisions in the Balkans as countries seek to join the bloc. EU enlargement commissioner Johannes Hahn urged regional leaders to focus on promised reforms. Hahn was...

Separate bombings in the Iraqi capital killed 10 people and wounded another 22 on Friday, according to Iraqi officials. The Baghdad attacks mainly targeted civilians and though there was no immediate claim of responsibility, they bore all the hallmarks of ISIS in what are apparently efforts...

Civilians in besieged eastern parts of Aleppo are impatiently waiting to vacate the city amid persistent attacks by the Assad regime and allied militias backed by Iran, according to local sources. On Wednesday, armed Syrian opposition groups lost control of eastern Aleppo’s Bab al-Nairab and...

ISIS extremists have killed at least 49 members of Syrian government forces in 24 hours of fighting near the desert city of Palmyra, a monitor said Friday. They included 15 Syrian soldiers and allied fighters killed in a Friday morning ambush near the Mahr oil field, the Syrian Observatory...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Islamic State on Friday made new gains in a gas-rich territory east of Homs province, inflicting heavy losses amid regime ranks and allied National Defense militia, activists said. On Thursday, the hardline group launched major offensive on regime forces near al-Shaer and...

The U.N. human rights office voiced concern Friday that hundreds of men may have gone missing after fleeing eastern Aleppo into government-controlled parts of the city. "While it's very difficult to establish the facts in such a fluid and dangerous situation, we have received very worrying...

Turkey plans a referendum by next May on constitutional changes that would expand the powers of the president and will then hold presidential and parliamentary polls together in 2019, a deputy prime minister said on Friday. Nurettin Canikli told A Haber TV in an interview that the ruling AK...

Six policemen were killed and three injured on Friday when a bomb placed in a garbage bin exploded at a security checkpoint in Cairo, security sources said. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack in Al Haram street leading to the Pyramids, in which four civilians were...