(Eqtsad)- 24 kinds of fish have been withdrawn from market after testing them and finding 20 samples containing unsafe materials, some of them unsuitable for human consumption and others contained cancerous elements due to breeding in contaminated water, while other samples were given 6 months...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The U.S. forces have been preparing a military position in Jabal Abdul Aziz in Hasakah’s western countryside within the Democratic Union forces (PYD) controlled areas. The Democratic Union is the United States ally on the ground in northern Syria in its battle against the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- In a secret prison of two floors north of Ayn al-Arab city, Mohamed Abu Hasan spent around 4 months after his arrest by Kurdish Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) militia under charges of being affiliated with ISIS. The interrogation was carried out by both Kurd and American...

Sixty-four civilians were killed and eight injured in 24 U.S. air strikes against Islamic State targets in Iraq and Syria between Nov. 20, 2015, and Sept. 10, 2016, the U.S. military said in a statement on Wednesday. "In each of the cases released today, the assessment determined that...

Turkey on Monday warned the United States not to allow demographic changes in the Syrian city of Raqqa after Kurdish-Arab forces launched a US-backed operation to capture the Islamic State (IS) bastion. Turkish forces are conspicuously absent from the operation, even though they are present...

Donald Trump's victory in the U.S. election sent shockwaves through industries that rely on open trade, from airlines to cars and IT outsourcing, even though many executives remain unsure what his protectionist rhetoric will mean in practice. Throughout his presidential campaign, Trump has...

The extremist cell that launched deadly attacks on Paris and Brussels received its orders from "very high" in ISIS command, Belgium's federal prosecutor said Wednesday. "We know that the orders came from the ISIS zone... We know that it went very high in the command," prosecutor Frederic Van...

Donald Trump's election as U.S. president on Wednesday aroused concern among Syrian rebels and a degree of optimism in Damascus, where his victory was seen as a better outcome than a Hillary Clinton win. Syrian rebels have long been fiercely critical of what they perceive as the Barack Obama...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime’s vacuum missiles attack on Wednesday left 6 civilians dead in Mashmashan village in the southern countryside of Idlib province, Civil Defense rescuing group said. The deadly aerial bombing on Idlib has killed 27 people in the past 24 hours, according to the...

The Russian Defense Ministry said on Wednesday NATO submarines had been tracking its battle group in the Mediterranean and that it had chased away a Dutch submarine which had been dangerously maneuvering nearby, the Interfax news agency reported. Moscow has assembled a sizable battle group...

An elite Yemeni force backed by Saudi-led coalition airstrikes killed 30 suspected Al-Qaeda fighters in the southeast of the country in a 24-hour operation that ended Wednesday, the army said. The force raided an Al-Qaeda hideout west of the port city of Mukalla Tuesday in a "very...

Five people were killed, more than 50 others were injured and two remained trapped after a tram overturned Wednesday morning in south London, said police who later confirmed officers had arrested its driver. Emergency services were called at about 6:10 a.m. to reports that a tram had...

Wayne Rooney turned down an offer to join Beijing Guoan in the summer, after his agent Paul Stretford met representatives, according to the Chinese club’s honorary chairman. Rooney is the subject of continuing interest from China’s Super League and Guoan tried to tempt the Manchester United...

A US-led coalition air strike killed at least 23 civilians in a village north of so-called Islamic State's Syrian stronghold of Raqqa, activists say. The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported that six women and a child were among those who died in the raids on al-Heisha...

(Middle East Eye)- Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi was the first leader from the Arab world to congratulate Donald Trump on Wednesday and said he hoped the US president-elect would "pump new life" into Egyptian-American relations. A statement from the Egyptian presidency emphasised...

 Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu congratulated Donald Trump on his election as US president on Wednesday and called him "a true friend of the state of Israel." "President-elect Trump is a true friend of the state of Israel, and I look forward to working with him to advance security,...

Israeli forces attacked a Syrian military position Wednesday, hours after a rocket from Syria hit the Israeli-held Golan Heights, the army said. "In response to the projectile which hit Israel earlier today, the IDF (Israel Defense Forces) targeted an artillery position of the Syrian regime...

Canada's main immigration website appeared to crash and New Zealand reported increased traffic to its website for residency visas from U.S. nationals in the hours before Donald Trump surged to victory in the U.S. presidential election. Canada's main immigration website appeared to suffer...

Back in May, when Donald's Trump's stunning U.S. presidential election victory seemed the remotest of possibilities, a senior European official took to Twitter before a G7 summit in Tokyo to warn of a "horror scenario". Imagine, mused Martin Selmayr, the head of European Commission President...

Iran's foreign minister called Wednesday on U.S. president-elect Donald Trump to stick to international agreements following his threats during the election campaign to tear up a nuclear deal with Tehran. "Every U.S. president has to understand the realities of today's world. The most...