When Islamic State insurgents fired mortar bombs at Iranian Kurdish women fighters holding a desert position in northern Iraq, the women first hit back by singing through loudspeakers. Then the women opened fire with machineguns. "We wanted to make them angry. To tell Daesh that we are...

A Syrian man arrested in Berlin is suspected of belonging to ISIS and having received ISIS instructions from Syria to carry out an attack in Germany, the Federal Prosecutor's Office said Thursday. Police said Wednesday that the man, identified by the prosecutor's office only as 27-year-old...

(Middle East Eye)- Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Thursday accused Germany of being one of the world's worst countries for harbouring "terrorists", saying Berlin had not responded to requests to hand over suspects from the 15 July failed coup. Erdogan said that he had handed...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The Syrian resistance in eastern Hama damaged a Sukh-22 airplane by launching a number of colorful balloons filled with hydrogen gas in its direction. The plane was forced emergency land in Hama’s military airport on October 12, and it went out of services following the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Six children and a father were killed in the northern countryside of Homs when regime warplanes targeted the city of al-Rastan by Vacuum missiles, local reporter said Thursday. Civil Defense rescuing group still looking for survivors under the rubble. Rastan, once the...

(The Daily Star)-  Novak Djokovic, fighting to extend his run as world number one, recovered from an early wobble to defeat Grigor Dimitrov in the last 16 of the Paris Masters Thursday. The record four-time champion will remain top of the rankings if he reaches the final in the French...

The start of this year proved deadly for one unit of about 100 Russian fighters supporting President Bashar al-Assad's troops in northern Syria. On Feb. 3, 38-year-old Maxim Kolganov was killed in a firefight with rebels near Aleppo when a bullet pierced his body armor and heart. Then,...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Dozens of peace activists rallied in front of the Russian embassy in London on Thursday, demonstrating the brutal aerial campaign against the battlefield city of Aleppo, according to video statement posted online by The Syria Campaign activist group. The ongoing...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- “Strangers in the jungle”, a documentary film produced by two refugees in France about the Syrian Refugees in the Calais camp at the boarders between France and England, before dismantling it September 2016. The film was produced by the Syrian director Tareq Hadad, with his...

The Israeli authorities have approved construction of 181 new settlement units in occupied East Jerusalem, according to a Palestinian expert on Israeli settlement-building activity. Khalil Tufakji told Anadolu Agency that Israel’s Jerusalem planning committee on Wednesday night approved...

(Rudaw)-  A malaise of distrust in Mosul enabled ISIS to easily take over more than two years ago, but now the US has an opportunity to help build trust there and contribute to stabilizing Iraq once the city is liberated, said a former US intelligence officer with experience in Mosul....

(The Daily Star)- The last buses out of the Calais "Jungle" left the French camp Thursday, carrying 291 migrants, mostly couples and women with children, to shelters around the country. The transfers end a 10-day operation to clear the camp on France's north coast, where more than 6,000...

Two members of the Shia Hashd al-Shaabi militia and three civilians were killed Thursday in three separate bombings that shook capital Baghdad, according to a local police source. Baghdad police officer Yasser al-Mustafa told Anadolu Agency that one bombing had targeted a vehicle carrying...

Australian counterterrorism police have arrested a Sydney man and a 17-year-old boy on suspicion of breaching foreign fighter laws. News broadcaster ABC reported that the 24-year-old arrested during raids Thursday was accused of traveling to Syria in July 2013 to fight with the Jabhat...

(The Daily Star)- Syrian rebels Thursday launched a new wave of car bombs and rockets on Aleppo's western districts, redoubling their efforts to break the government's three-month siege of the city. An AFP photographer said government-held districts had been quiet throughout the night, but...

(The Independent)- More than 200 refugees have been killed in two disasters off the coast of Libya as Europe's attention focuses on a landmark legal ruling on Brexit. The tragedies push the known number of asylum seekers who have died attempting to reach Europe this year over 4,000, with...

(The Independent)- Bookie Ladbrokes said Brexit betting markets were “in chaos” in the wake of the Government’s stunning defeat in the High Court.  The Brexit court challenge, brought by campaigner Gina Miller, means the Government cannot trigger Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty, kicking...

Lebanese Prime Minister-designate Saad Hariri said Thursday that he will be seeking to form a “national accord” government quickly, saying one of its main tasks would be to agree on a “just” electoral law and hold parliamentary elections on time. “I look forward to starting the consultations...

(The Daily Star)-  U.S. Marines are using Super Cobra attack helicopters to mount close-range airstrikes against ISIS militants in the Libyan city of Sirte, the U.S. navy said Thursday. The gunship attacks, the first of their kind to be confirmed in over two months, were launched...

The U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) alliance of Kurdish and Arab armed groups said Thursday it would reject Turkish involvement in the operation to drive ISIS from its Syrian capital Raqqa. U.S. officials have said they hope to start an offensive against ISIS in Raqqa within...