Belgian police detained eight people on Tuesday suspected of recruiting extremists to fight in Syria and raising funds for ISIS, federal prosecutors said. The prosecutor's office said the eight were detained following raids on nine homes in the Dutch-speaking towns of Antwerp, Bruges and...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The Education Directorate in rebel-held Idlib province has suspended teaching in the schools for three days as the regime and Russian warplanes wage deadly aerial bombing that killed about 70 people in the past 4 days, including students. The volunteer Civil Defense group...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Six civilians have been killed Tuesday in air strikes hit the southern countryside of Idlib province as regime and key ally Russia wage brutal aerial bombing that killed 80 people in three days, local activists said. The strikes hit a marketplace in the village of Kafr Sajnah....

 A trending story that claims Hillary Clinton won a total of 57 counties in the presidential election is untrue. The Associated Press finds that Clinton won 487 counties nationwide, compared with 2,626 for President-elect Donald Trump. The story appeared on several viral content...

Egyptian authorities announced Tuesday the arrest of 25 members of an international network allegedly trafficking in human organs, including university professors and doctors. "Today at dawn, the largest international network for trading human organs has been captured," the country's...

Iraqi army units advanced from southeast Mosul towards a bridge across the Tigris in the city center on Tuesday, in an attack that could give fresh impetus to the hard fought, seven-week battle for Islamic State's northern Iraq stronghold. Campaign commander Lieutenant General Abdul Ameer...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Tuesday that it was a "disgrace" that the international community had been unable to alleviate the suffering in Syria's besieged city of Aleppo. "Aleppo is a disgrace," she said in a speech to her conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party....

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime rejects any ceasefire negotiated by any party in rebel-held eastern Aleppo unless what it describes as 'terrorist groups' there depart, its Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday in a statement carried by state media. Moscow said on Monday that Russian and U.S....

Russia's foreign minister Tuesday accused the U.S. of backtracking on planned talks in Geneva over a rebel pullout from Syria's Aleppo to "buy time" for those battling leader Bashar Assad. "It looks like an attempt to buy time for the rebels to have a breather, take a pause and replenish...

A police officer and a youth were hospitalized Tuesday after Hamas forces clashed with hard-line Islamists in the Gaza Strip, a medical source and witnesses said. Both men suffered bullet wounds during an attempt by Gaza security forces to arrest two men from a Salafist group, followers of...

South Korean President Park Geun-hye, engulfed in an influence peddling scandal, said if she was impeached she would wait for a court to uphold the decision, an official of her party said on Tuesday, signaling a political crisis could drag on for months. Parliament is expected to hold a vote...

One day after her account disappeared from social media, a seven-year old Syrian girl who captured world attention with her Twitter messages re-tweeted again on Monday about her life under bombardment in the northern city of Aleppo. Bana Alabed disappeared from social media on Sunday after...

(Sky News)- Major technology companies are joining forces to spot terrorist propaganda and prevent it spreading online. Twitter, Microsoft and Google-owned YouTube will join Facebook in creating a form of digital database to "fingerprint" flagged up terrorist content.   By...

Iran will not let U.S. President-elect Donald Trump rip up the nuclear deal it signed with world powers, President Hassan Rouhani said on Tuesday. "[Trump] wants to do many things, but none of his actions would affect us ... Do you think the United States can rip up the JCPOA (the Joint...

British Prime Minister Theresa May is to join Gulf Arab leaders gathered for a summit in Bahrain Tuesday for talks on trade after Britain's exit from the European Union. May is the first British premier and the first woman to attend the annual summit of the six oil-rich Gulf Cooperation...

Turkey's military says the country's military chief has held talks with his U.S. counterpart during a previously announced visit to an air base in southern Turkey. A brief military statement Tuesday said the meeting took place Monday at Incirlik Air Base where U.S. Gen. Joseph Dunford was...

Russia and China on Monday vetoed a UN Security Council resolution calling for a seven-day ceasefire in the embattled Syrian city of Aleppo. Venezuela also voted against the text, while Angola abstained. The 11 other member nations on the council cast their votes for the text. The vote...

The death toll in the Oakland warehouse fire climbed to 36 Monday with more bodies still feared buried in the blackened ruins, and families anxiously awaited word of their missing loved ones. The laborious job of digging with shovels and buckets was suspended overnight because of a...

The second crash of a Russian warplane off the coast of Syria in less than a month intensified scrutiny Monday of a critical weakness in Moscow’s show of naval force in the Mediterranean and the 1,000-foot hulk leading it.  The Admiral Kuznetsov, Russia’s sole, aging aircraft carrier,...

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said on Monday Iran's nuclear agreement with world powers last year had made the world safer, rejecting U.S. President-elect Donald Trump references to the pact as a "disaster" and "the worst deal ever negotiated." "The region is safer, Germany and the...