Russia on Wednesday expressed reservations about a US proposal to extend a UN investigation of chemical weapons use in Syria for a year after the panel blamed Damascus's forces for three gas attacks. The UN Security Council is to discuss on Thursday a US-drafted measure that would allow the...

There weren’t any bombs today, or the day before. That’s good, because it means you can leave your apartment, see your friends, try to pretend life is normal. Still, you don’t know when the attacks will resume or how much worse they’ll be when they do. The war here has been going on for more...

Hundreds of people awoke in emergency shelters in Italy on Thursday after fleeing their homes following a series of strong quakes in the same region struck by a devastating tremor two months ago. After a night of heavy rain, rescuers workers were trying to assess the full extent of the...

(Zaman al-Wasl)- Syrian resistance lost 4 of its officers on Wednesday in Homs northern countryside. Statements released by Faylaq Homs and Tahrir Watan movement clarified that Colonel Shauqi Ayoub, head of planning in Homs Faylaq and lieutenant colonel Faisal Awad, head of signal department...

(The Daily Star)- A U.S. general told AFP Thursday that between 800 and 900 ISIS fighters have been killed since the Iraqi-led operation to recapture Mosul from the extremists began. "Just in the operations over the last week and a half associated with Mosul, we estimate they've probably...

German prosecutors say a 19-year-old Syrian migrant scouted out potential sites in Berlin for an attack by ISIS. Federal prosecutors say the teenager, identified only as Shaas al-M. in keeping with German privacy rules, also recruited at least one person to fight in Syria. They allege he...

(Foreign Affairs)- On January 25, 2011, tens of thousands of Egyptians took to the streets, demanding an end to the nearly 30-year rule of President Hosni Mubarak. Eighteen days later, Mubarak stepped down. In Tahrir Square, the crowds cried, “Lift your head high, you’re an Egyptian.” “We can...

(The Guardian)- Scores of unaccompanied children remain unaccounted for in an increasingly chaotic situation at the Calais refugee camp, where French authorities tried to declare that it would be completely cleared at the end of the day. Charities working at the site estimated about 100...

The U.N. Children's agency says airstrikes in Syria's rebel-held northern Idlib province a day earlier may be the deadliest attack on a school since the country's war began nearly six years ago, leaving 22 children and six of their teachers killed. A team of first responders, the Syrian...

ISIS is planning additional "significant" external operations against the West from its de-facto capital in Raqqa, Syria, the top U.S. commander in Iraq told reporters Wednesday. “I will say that we actually aren't sure how pressing it is, and that's what's worrying us,” Lt. Gen. Stephen...

(Fox News)- A Russian armada led by aging Soviet-era aircraft carrier Admiral Kuznetzov has entered the Mediterranean Sea in the past few hours, two U.S. officials with knowledge of their position tell Fox News. The Russian defense minister says this seven-ship flotilla will be sailing to...

Turkey on Wednesday said it would continue its military operations in Syria until Daesh is expelled from the town of al-Bab, despite a warning from militants allied to regime leader Bashar al-Assad. Turkey launched Operation Euphrates Shield two months ago to drive Daesh terrorists from its...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- The Syrian resistance factions operating in southern Damascus suburbs clashed with regime forces and allied Palestinian militia late on Wednesday, killing three soldiers. The clashes took place in the besieged Yarmouk refuge camp and al-Tadhamon district, local reporter...

A landslide piled into one of Colombia's busiest highways Wednesday, killing at least six people and leaving an "undetermined" number missing and feared buried, authorities said. The huge mass of brown earth swallowed up a section of road located several kilometers (miles) outside second...

As a tense, divided country barrels toward Election Day, Americans say they are worried about the possibility of violence flaring up after the country votes for a new president next month. Half of likely voters say they are at least somewhat concerned about violence either on Election Day or...

More than 20 people were injured and 39 were detained at anti-government protests in Venezuela on Wednesday, the head of a local rights group said. The injuries included three people who were shot in the northwestern city of Maracaibo, said Alfredo Romero, on a day of nationwide protests...

(Middle East Eye)- Turkish police clashed with protesters in Diyarbakir on Wednesday, using tear gas and water cannon to prevent them demonstrating against the detention of the Kurdish-majority city's co-mayors. Gultan Kisanak and Firat Anli, members of the Democratic Regions party (DBP),...

(Middle East Eye)- Gunfire from a vehicle in Lebanon towards Israeli forces on the border wounded an Israeli soldier on Wednesday and officers returned fire, the army said. "Shots were fired from a passing vehicle in Lebanon at forces during routine activity adjacent to the border in the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The death toll of the Russian air strikes on Idlib's school has risen to 35, most of them were school children, local activists and Idlib Media Center said Wednesday.  The deadly air strikes hit a residential area and a school in Haas village in the northern province of...

The Egyptian pound has fallen further against the U.S. dollar, now trading at more than 16 pounds to the greenback, local forex traders said Wednesday. Traders, who preferred anonymity due to security concerns, told Anadolu Agency that the dollar was now selling at a record high of 16.25...