Some 300 million children live with outdoor air so polluted it can cause serious physical damage, including harming their developing brains, the United Nations said in a study released on Monday. Nearly one child in seven around the globe breathes outdoor air that is at least six times...

(ُEqtsad)- Om Mahmood is proud of herself for being able to support her family from her work in sewing and hand-craft, after joining the Woman centre in the camp of Atme on the Turkish border. Om Mamood is now able to earn SYP.40,000 from her work, which can cover the majority of her...

(Rudaw)- Some 300 Syrian child soldiers brought in by ISIS to Iraq have been killed since the start of the Mosul offensive a fortnight ago, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Sunday.   The UK-based watchdog said that the dead bodies of 40 ISIS militants killed in Mosul had...

(Independent)- Three Russian submarines armed with cruise missiles have reportedly joined a naval battleforce heading towards Syria. The Royal Navy and Nato have been tracking the two Akula-class submarines and a diesel-powered Kilo-class sub as they travelled to join the fleet of Russian...

Iraqi troops including elite counter terrorism forces resumed an offensive on the eastern front of Mosul on Monday, a military statement said, targeting the eastern bank of the Tigris river which divides the northern Iraqi city. The elite counter terrorism unit had paused its advance last...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- An ISIS explosive device killed and wound number of Kurdish PYD militia in Hasaka province on Sunday, activist told Zaman al-Wasl as an Iraqi child girl lost her life in al-Houl refugees camp due to lack of medical care. Activists Mahmoud al-Ahmed said the explosive device hit...

Twenty-six years after being forced from Lebanon's presidential palace and into exile by the Syrian army, Michel Aoun is set to be elected head of state on Monday, backed by many of his old enemies. Barring a surprise, many of Lebanon's sectarian politicians will back the 81-year-old Christian...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian opposition forces have recaptured ground lost to regime army and allied militias early Sunday in the battleground city of Aleppo, local reporter said. The Jaish al-Fateh-led forces have opened a new front in the city as fighting spread on the third day of a major...

  (Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 26  resistance fighters were killed late on Sunday in a regime army ambush near Dael town in the southern  province of Daraa, activists said. The resistance forces launched early Sunday a surprise attack on regime army near Dael town, killing and...

Saudi authorities announced on Sunday they had prevented a terror plot targeting a stadium in Jeddah prior to an international football match against the UAE attended by thousands. The four suspects, two Pakistanis, a Syrian and a Sudanese citizen, were arrested after foiling the plot which...

(The Daily Star)- Iraqi forces said Sunday that they recaptured a series of villages surrounding jihadist-held Mosul as the operation to retake the city from the Islamic State group neared its third week. Tens of thousands of Iraqi troops and Kurdish peshmerga fighters have been advancing on...

Syrian rebels opened a new front in Aleppo as fighting spread on the third day of a major insurgent counter-attack to break the government's siege of the opposition-held part of the city, and each side accused the other using poison gas. The rebels, including both Free Syrian Army factions...

(Zaman al-Wasl) Zaman al-Wasl learnt that regime forces imposed a security cordon around Tartus central prison on Sunday afternoon following some of the political prisoners carrying out an insurrection. The political prisoners managed to gain control of the entire prison after breaking down room...

(Sky News)- Family members of US consulate staff in Istanbul have been ordered to leave because of security concerns. The information follows a warning last week of increased threats from extremist groups and advice that US citizens should carefully consider any travel within Turkey. The...

(The Daily Star)- A car bomb parked in a shopping street of a Shiite district of Baghdad killed at least eight people and wounded more than 30 others on Sunday, police and medical staff said. The bombing, which hit the Hurriya district, came as Iraqi security forces are engaged in an...

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said Sunday that neither he or his department had been contacted by the FBI over its renewed investigation into his predecessor Hillary Clinton's emails. "No, I haven't been notified of anything, no, I haven't been requested of anything, no, I'm not aware...

(The Daily Star)- Bayern Munich will be without Spain international Javi Martinez for Tuesday's Champions League clash at PSV Eindhoven, the German giants have confirmed. The center-back went off after only 29 minutes of the Bundesliga leaders' 3-1 win at Ausgburg Saturday and Bayern...

For years, trains ferried millions of dollars in phosphate past Nouredine Ezzidine's Tunisian town, where young men like him idle their days in cafes over cigarettes and coffee, desperate for work. After seven years with no job, the mechanics graduate had had enough. He joined protesters who...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Aleppo’s activists mourn the death of Ahmad Sindet the military leader of Jaish al-Islam in northern Syria following his killing by a thermobaric missile launched by the Russian warplanes. Sindet was in the village of Minyan that borders New Aleppo neighborhood after...

 Four Egyptian soldiers have been killed in the Sinai Peninsula, where the local branch of ISIS regularly attacks security forces, the army said on Sunday. The troops were killed during operations around El-Arish, close to the border with the Gaza Strip, army spokesman Brigadier General...