(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime forces on Monday broke into the central prison of the coastal city of Tartus, wounding dozens of inmates who revolted two days ago against death sentences, sources said. The prison uprising broke out in protest against the execution of political inmate. The...

Syrian opposition forces have captured the village of Manyan near the entrance of the New Aleppo district of the besieged city of Aleppo, opposition sources told Anadolu Agency on Monday. The move comes as part of a military operation launched last Friday by opposition factions...

(the Daily Star)-  The UN Security Council on Monday extended the mandate of a panel investigating chemical attacks in Syria for two weeks to allow time to negotiate a one-year renewal of the probe. The council unanimously backed a US-drafted resolution on the short extension as a...

Egypt's state news agency says the country's oil ministry has signed a memorandum of understanding with its Iraqi counterpart to pave the way for Egypt to import oil from Iraq. Oil Minister Tarek el-Mulla was quoted by MENA on Monday as saying that the agreement will "open the doors" for...

 The leader of Iraq's largest Iranian-backed Shiite militia expressed hope on Monday that the battle of Mosul would not be as protracted and devastating as in the one that allied Shiite militias are fighting in the Syrian city of Aleppo. "We are afraid that Mosul could be another...

(Eqtsad)- Asem Hasna, a Syrian young man from Qatana city Western of Damascus, worked with a medical group on first aid to help wounded during demonstrations and detainees, in the beginning of the Syrian revolution.  He was still in University studying maths, when the Syrian intelligence...

French authorities were on Monday clearing the last shacks in the Calais "Jungle", signalling the end of the notorious camp, as attention turned to the thousands of migrants sleeping rough in Paris. The authorities have said that nothing will be left of the notorious Jungle, home to around...

About 220 African migrants forced their way through a barbed wire fence into Spain's North African enclave of Ceuta Monday, clashing with Spanish police who tried to prevent them from crossing the border with Morocco. Thirty-two migrants were treated in hospital for minor injuries after...

(Independent) Moonscape. Desert. Blitz. The past 100 years of war have turned all our words into clichés. I rage at every reference to the Second World War – because it’s over, because Hitler is dead, because we won and because we shouldn’t dig up old graves to frighten future generations. But...

 Iraqi special forces neared the eastern city limits of Mosul on Monday, tightening the noose as the offensive to retake the Islamic State group stronghold entered its third week. Forces from the elite Counter-Terrorism Service (CTS) faced mortar fire as they pushed from the Christian...

  (Zaman al Wasl)-An intelligence document described a group of Syrian officers belonging to the same family as terrorists and excommunicators. The telegram entitled “urgent and highly confidential,” was directed by the 294 branch of the military intelligence to the 271 branch in...

Three Turkish soldiers and 13 Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militants were killed on Monday during clashes in Turkey's largely Kurdish southeast, security sources said. Turkish soldiers were on an operation in the Daglica district of Hakkari province, which borders Iraq, when clashes broke...

Syria's political opposition hopes Hillary Clinton wins the U.S. presidential election next week because she has a better understanding of the conflict than Donald Trump, according to members of a delegation holding talks at the United Nations. Khaled Khoja and Hind Kabawat, in Geneva Monday...

 Egypt's Health Ministry says recent floods have killed 26 people and injured 72 others across the country. Ministry spokesman Khaled Megahed says Monday that the flooding hit four provinces – Southern Sinai and the Red Sea, as well as Sohag and Bani Suef in Upper Egypt. He says in...

Danish police said Monday they found the bodies of a slain Syrian refugee and her two young daughters in a freezer in their apartment, as they launched a manhunt for the girls' father. The bodies of the 27-year-old mother and her seven and nine-year-old daughters were found inside a freezer...

Reporting by Ahmed Primo ALEPPO (Zaman Al Wasl)- Poweful Fateh al-Sham front vowed to break siege of  the eastern neighborhoods of Aleppo, and to continue its fighting against the regime forces and allied militias, saying the ongoing battle is the most crucial one in northern Syria,...

 A police operation is underway in a Paris migrant camp that has resurged in recent weeks in a new challenge to French government efforts to tackle the migrant crisis. Paris police and regional officials say the operation Monday is not an evacuation, but aimed at verifying migrants'...

(The Daily Star)- Egyptian security officials say militants have attacked the same army checkpoint in Sinai where 12 soldiers were killed earlier this month, this time leaving one soldier dead. They say the attack on Bir el-Abd took place Monday. It's about 80 kilometers, or 50 miles, east...

(The Guardian)- Britain is hosting crisis talks with Libya’s leaders in London on Monday in an attempt to ward off the collapse of the country’s war-torn economy. Leaders of the embattled UN-backed government are meeting in a US-led initiative, hosted by the UK Foreign Office, as diplomats...

Oil prices extended declines on Monday after non-OPEC producers made no specific commitment to join the OPEC in limiting oil output levels to prop up prices, suggesting they wanted the oil producing group to solve its differences first. Officials and experts from OPEC countries and non-OPEC...