A suicide bomber detonated his car bomb at a gas station in al-Hilla city, 100 km (60 miles) south of Baghdad on Thursday, killing at least 12 civilians and wounding 10 more, police and medical sources say. The attack took place at gas station with an adjacent restaurant used by Iranian...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 46 regime soldiers and allied militants have been killed by Syrian rebels in coastal Latakia province as regime forces launch major attack on Jabal al-Turkman, pro-Assad activists said, accusing Turkish army of hitting army strongholds. The regime forces backed by the...

(The Daily Star)- Suspects arrested last weekend in France under anti-terrorism measures had been planning to launch attacks on Dec. 1 at important and landmark sites in and around Paris, according to a source close to the inquiry. Police sources said that among the targets were France's...

MODI'IN, Israel An easterly wind whipped up more forest and brush fires across Israel and the West Bank on Thursday, temporarily forcing the closure of a highway between Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, and a senior minister said he suspected many blazes were deliberate. A lack of rain combined with...

(The Daily Star)- Iraqi Kurdish and Shiite forces agreed to coordinate movements after cutting off Mosul from the rest of the territory held by ISIS in western Iraq and Syria in support of a U.S-backed offensive to capture the city, U.S. and Iraqi officials said on Thursday. The agreement...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime stepped up its aerial bombing on the rebel-held Idlib province, leaving huge destruction, local activist said Thursday. Idlib Media Center said the strikes targeted villages of Maer Shamarin, Deri Sharqi, Kinda and al-Najiya and al-Tamaneh town. On Wednesday, 4...

A group of election lawyers and data experts has asked Hillary Clinton's campaign to call for a recount of the vote totals in three battleground states - Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania - to ensure that a cyberattack was not committed to manipulate the totals. There is no evidence that...

German airline Lufthansa cancelled over 900 flights scheduled for Thursday as a strike by its pilots entered a second day. In a statement released late on Wednesday, the airline said the strike had grounded a total of 1,800 flights scheduled for Wednesday and Thursday, affecting more than...

A soldier was martyred in a PKK terror attack in the southeastern Turkish province of Sirnak on Thursday, according to security sources. The source, speaking on condition of anonymity due to restrictions on talking to the media, said a soldier was martyred when PKK terrorists exploded a...

The president of the European Parliament has announced that he will leave his post and go into German politics, where he could become the main opponent to Chancellor Angela Merkel in next year's elections. SPD Socialist Martin Schulz made the impromptu statement at the EU legislature and his...

(Al Jazeera)- France has accused Syria and its allies of using political uncertainty in the US to launch "total war" against opposition-held areas in the country and called for new sanctions on Bashar al-Assad's government for the use of chemical weapons. Making the accusations after a...

(The Daily Star)- Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) has detained a former Russian navy official in Crimea who is accused of spying for the Ukrainian military, Interfax news agency cited the FSB as saying on Thursday. The FSB said it detained the former Naval captain in Sevastopol on...

More than 10,500 state employees have been dismissed over suspected links with the Kurdish PKK militant group, Turkish Labour Minister Mehmet Muezzinoglu said on Thursday in an interview with broadcaster CNN Turk. Turkey is fighting an insurgency by the PKK in the largely Kurdish southeast...

An air strike thought to have been carried out by Syrian regime forces killed three Turkish soldiers and wounded 10 others overnight, one of them seriously, the Turkish military said on Thursday. The attack occurred at around 3:30 am (0030 GMT) in the course of a Turkish-led Syrian rebel...

The European Union is looking into whether Russian tankers carried jet fuel to Syria through the bloc's waters despite this being banned, an EU source said on Wednesday. The shipments to Syria bolstered military supplies to a country where Moscow is carrying out air strikes on rebels in...

(Zaman al-Wasl)- War criminals will have the same shameful fate like their predecessors. With these statements, the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power described a group of regime army officers while she counts them in their names during a council session on Monday without...

President Barack Obama got the holiday mood started at the White House on Wednesday with the traditional pardoning of the national Thanksgiving turkey, this time with his nephews standing in for daughters Malia and Sasha. The light-hearted ceremony in the Rose Garden also featured...

Heavy cross-border shelling in the disputed Kashmir region killed at least three Pakistani soldiers and seven Indian troops on Wednesday, Pakistan’s military said, in a sharp escalation of violence after a deadly ambush of three Indian soldiers. At least 10 civilians also were killed, witnesses...

  (Zaman Al Wasl)- Russian warplanes have mistakenly killed 2 NDF militants and wounded 14 more in strikes hit the gas field of al-Shaer near the ancient city of Palmyra, social media accounts said Tuesday. Sweida-24, Facebook page, quoted an NDF source as saying that the Russian...

Spanish prosecutors Wednesday recommended a two-year prison sentence for famous Brazilian footballer, Neymar da Silva Junior, over his alleged role in a corruption case related to his 2013 transfer to Barcelona. Neymar’s parents and the former president of FC (Football Club) Barcelona,...