One Turkish soldier was martyred in a Daesh attack in northern Syria on Saturday.  Three soldiers were wounded, one critically, when Daesh bombed Turkish troops near the city of Al-Bab, north of Aleppo. The wounded were taken to a hospital in Turkey's border province of Gaziantep,...

Mounting civilian casualties from fighting in eastern Mosul between Iraqi forces and ISIS are overwhelming the capacity of the government and international aid groups, the United Nations said on Saturday. Nearly 200 wounded civilians and military personnel were transferred to hospital last...

President-elect Donald Trump and 2012 Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney set aside their long-simmering rivalry on Saturday and had talks likely to feed speculation that Romney could be a candidate to be Trump's secretary of state. Trump and Romney emerged from their meeting after...

 Ineffective without Lionel Messi and Luis Suarez, Barcelona was held to 0-0 by Malaga, missing a chance to move to the top of the Spanish league on Saturday. Despite playing at home and with an extra player from the 68th minute, Barcelona was unable to overcome the absence of the...

France president Francois Hollande warned Donald Trump on Saturday that U.S. commitments to reducing climate change and global warming are "irreversible". U.S. president-elect Trump has previously claimed climate change is a "hoax" and promised to cancel the hard-won Paris climate agreement...

(The Guardian)- Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced new steps to counter fake news on the platform on Saturday, marking a departure from his skepticism that online misinformation is, as Barack Obama said this week, a threat to democratic institutions. “We take misinformation seriously,”...

(Al Jazeera)- An air raid has hit a children's hospital in Syria's rebel-held east Aleppo, forcing medical staff to evacuate patients, including several newborn babies still in incubators. The moment of the attack on Friday was captured by an Al Jazeera crew, including journalist Amro...

A pro-government militia announced Saturday it was cutting off roads connecting Syria with Iraq’s predominantly Turkmen city of Tal Afar, currently held by Daesh. The al-Hashd al-Shaabi Shia militia said in a written statement that it had cut off most supply roads between Syria and Tal Afar,...

US National Security Advisor Susan Rice condemned "heinous" bombings of hospitals in rebel-held eastern Aleppo Saturday, warning the regime and its Russian backers they are responsible for immediate and long-term consequences. "The United States condemns in the strongest terms these horrific...

Top UN officials said Saturday they were "appalled" by escalating violence in Syria, and urged immediate access to Aleppo, where government forces are waging a ferocious assault to retake rebel-held districts. "The United Nations is extremely saddened and appalled by the recent escalation in...

Anti-terrorist judges have charged a French teenager over links to an ISIS extremist suspected of instigating several attacks in France, a judicial source said Saturday. The 17-year-old boy was allegedly in touch with French-born extremist Rachid Kassim, who is believed to have inspired an...

For more than six years, Donald Trump fought hard against a lawsuit in which former customers of his now-defunct Trump University accused him of fraud. Less than two weeks after being elected president, he agreed to a $25 million settlement. "We definitely detected a change of tone and...

Moscow has sought an explanation from the Swiss government after Swiss fighter jets flew close to a Russian government airliner en route to Peru for the APEC summit. Three Swiss F/A 18 jets Friday came close to the airplane carrying Russian APEC delegation members and journalists and...

Thousands of Indonesians held a peaceful rally on Saturday to promote unity, saying they were worried by signs of growing racial and religious intolerance in the world's largest Muslim-majority country. Dressed in red and white shirts, the colors of the Indonesian flag, religious leaders,...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The death toll of Syrian and Russian air strikes on eastern Aleppo has risen to 38 amid brutal aerial bombing on the rebel-held areas in the embattled city, Civil Defense said Saturday. The volunteer rescuing group said the situation in Aleppo is catastrophic due to the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian resistance observatories mentioned that T4 military airport in central Homs province was put in service on Friday after three months of maintenance work. During the three months, the Sukhoi 22 and Sukhoi 24 airplanes assigned to T4 were taking from nearby al-Shayrat...

 British-Iranian woman serving a five-year jail sentence after being accused of sedition in Iran has reached "breaking point" and considered suicide, rights group Amnesty said Saturday. Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, who works for the Thomson Reuters Foundation, was sentenced in September...

 Police Saturday detained two Swedish TV journalists in the sensitive Kurdish-majority province of Diyarkabir in southeastern Turkey after they filmed near a military zone, a local news agency reported. The pair, identified only by their initials as L.N.B. and R.A.S., were arrested...

Chinese state media warned U.S. President-elect Donald Trump on Saturday against flip-flopping on trade deals in Asia, as Asia-Pacific leaders gathered for a summit amid fears that growing protectionism will stunt global economic growth. During the raucous election campaign, Trump fuelled...

(The Daily Star)- A Saudi delegation is expected to arrive in Beirut at the beginning of next week to meet with senior officials after the recent political breakthrough in the country, local media reported Saturday. Saudi King Salman bin Abdul-Aziz will dispatch Emir of Mecca Prince Khaled...