(Eqtsad)-It seems that the winter in Daraa in its sixth year from the Syrian revolution will be unusually hard, the harsh cold came early this year in conjunction with very hard economic conditions which are becoming increasingly worse at a time where there is an extreme shortage in fuel and...

Iraqi Shi'ite militias said on Wednesday they had driven Islamic State fighters from an air base west of Mosul, a victory which would threaten the Sunni group's supply route from Syria to its last major stronghold in Iraq. "The airport of Tal Afar has been liberated," Yusif al-Kallabi, a...

The House of Representatives voted Wednesday to renew a bill that sanctions Iran and a separate piece of legislation that imposes new ones against supporters of the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. Both bills backed were overwhelmingly approved by the by the Foreign Affairs...

The Democratic mayor of New York, Bill de Blasio, said he met Wednesday with President-elect Donald Trump and warned him that he would work to protect undocumented immigrants from deportation. "I reiterated to him that this city and so many cities around the country will do all we can to...

Barcelona president Josep Maria Bartomeu predicted Wednesday that Lionel Messi would not only extend his contract with the Catalan club but also end his playing days there too. Speaking at the launch of a 55 million euros ($59 million) a year shirt sponsorship deal Bartomeu told journalists...

Tunisian police have arrested four suspected extremists accused of plotting to carry out attacks in the capital and to assassinate prominent politicians and journalists, an interior ministry spokesman said Wednesday. The group, composed of three men and a girl, "was planning attacks against...

(The Guardian)- Jet fighters and helicopters bombing east Aleppo hit a children’s hospital and a blood bank on Wednesday, as medics and patients sheltered in the basement waiting for the hours-long assault to end. An ambulance driver and at least two children were among at least 20 civilians...

A commuter tram that derailed in south London killing seven passengers was travelling at more than three times the speed limit, investigators said Wednesday. Dozens more were injured when the early morning tram came off the rails on Nov. 9 as it approached a sharp curve near a junction....

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At east 30 civilians were killed and dozens more wounded in regime and Russia's air strikes on the battleground city of Aleppo, Civil Defense rescuing group said Wednesday. The regime and Russian warplanes pounded the neighborhoods of al-Sha'ar and al-Sukkari, killing more...

Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree Wednesday to withdraw Russia from the International Criminal Court, which rules on such grave charges as genocide and crimes against humanity. Russia in 2000 signed the Rome treaty that established the Hague-based court but never ratified...

Syrian government and Russian warplanes pounded rebel-held parts of northern Syria Wednesday, including battered second city Aleppo, where food aid rations were all-but-exhausted after months of regime siege. The renewed bombardment has killed at least 20 people, including nine children, in...

Egyptian authorities have taken the name of former presidential candidate Ahmed Shafiq, who fled the country after his 2012 defeat, off airport watch lists, his lawyer said, clearing the way for him to return home. Shafiq had faced various corruption charges but was either acquitted or had...

(Middle East Eye)- As a child, the 26-year-old lived in a camp for internally-displaced persons in Yemen, after a civil war broke out in the country in the mid-1990s. There, he saw first-hand how poor living conditions and diseases impacted families and children in particular. “There was a...

Foreign medics are helping Iraqi special forces personnel treat a growing number of children wounded by intense urban warfare inside the jihadist-held city of Mosul. Car bombs, sniper fire and booby traps have led to mounting casualties in the east of the city, where advancing Iraqi troops...

Syrian and Russian warplanes bombed rebel-held areas in Aleppo and Idlib province overnight, activists said, a day after Moscow announced a fresh offensive against opponents of its Damascus ally. "Russian military planes were seen all night until morning in several regions of Idlib" in...

The head of a leading civil rights organization has urged Muslim Americans to "stay strong" following the election of Donald Trump. Trump made a number of Islamophobic remarks during his presidential campaign, including his infamous demand that the U.S. close its borders to all Muslims...

Clashes between Palestinian security forces and gunmen erupted in the West Bank city of Nablus Wednesday, killing a woman, medics said, as concern grows over intra-Palestinian violence. The 39-year-old was said to have been killed in the old city of Nablus, in the north of the occupied West...

(The Guardian)- More needs to be done to ease the difficulties facing refugees if they are to reach their potential in the UK, according to the first major piece of research into the government’s resettlement scheme. Academics from the University of Sussex are close to completing a...

The Kurdish YPG militia will pull its forces from the Syrian city of Manbij and withdraw east of the Euphrates River in order to participate in the campaign to liberate the ISIS stronghold of Raqqa, it said in a statement. U.S. special envoy Brett McGurk described the move as a "milestone",...

Turkish-backed rebels are just 2 km (1.25 miles) from the northern Syrian city of al Bab and are expected to take it from ISIS quickly despite some resistance, Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said Wednesday. The rebels said Tuesday they had taken Qabasin, several km northeast of al Bab, to...