Reporting by Ammar Bakkour (Zaman Al Wasl)- The Turkish military incursion 500 meters into the area of Aqrabat in Idlib’s northern countryside on Wednesday evening enraged the area residents and many activists who expressed their anger on social media. A military source revealed to Zaman...

A teenage girl went on trial in Germany Thursday for stabbing a police officer, an assault allegedly "ordered" by ISIS but which was not claimed by ISIS. Safia S., 16, was in the dock in the northern city of Celle, with the court due to decide whether the proceedings would take place behind...

A suspected supporter of Islamic State stabbed and wounded three Indonesian police on Thursday in what appeared to be the latest violence inspired by the militant group in the world's biggest Muslim-majority nation. The man also threw a pipe bomb which failed to explode during the rush hour...

Hundreds of French police officers protested in Paris and other cities overnight to denounce what they say are insufficient resources to fight mounting lawlessness, defying government demands that they stop the unauthorized demonstrations. Six months from an election, the protest, now in its...

Dressed in black, thousands of Argentines took to the streets Wednesday to protest the brutal rape and murder of a 16-year-old girl, the latest case of violence against women to shock the country. The protesters -- mostly women, but also some men -- marched in memory of Lucia Perez, a high...

 Seated at his desk at a suburban San Diego middle school, 12-year-old Abdulhamid Ashehneh tries not to let his mind wander to the painful memories of his life in civil war-torn Syria. His father disappeared suddenly four years ago and, the family believes, was killed. Months later,...

An Iraqi army elite unit and Kurdish fighters on Thursday launched a fresh offensive to dislodge Islamic State militants from villages around Mosul, their last major city stronghold in Iraq, with the air and ground support of the U.S.-led coalition. Howitzer and mortar fire started at 6:00...

Turkish warplanes struck Syrian Kurdish militia targets in northern Syria and killed up to 200 militants, state media quoted the military as saying Thursday. The jets hit 18 targets in Maarrat Umm Hawsh, a region north of the city of Aleppo, the official news agency Anadolu said....

The Syrian regime military said on Thursday a unilateral ceasefire backed by Russia had come into force to allow people to leave besieged eastern Aleppo, a move that the rebels have said was part of a psychological campaign to get them to surrender. State media earlier said the army had opened...

  French President Francois Hollande said in Berlin summit he has the impression after meeting Russian President Vladimir Putin that a pause in fighting in Aleppo may be extended. Russia has promised an eight-hour halt in fighting on Thursday in the besieged city. Hollande said early...

(The Daily Star)- “When I got married I was still a kid, I used to ask my husband to bring me sweets,” 20-year-old Rima explained to the group of Syrian women sitting together in her neighbor’s home in north Lebanon. One of the other young women in the group gets up to close the heavy metal...

A U.N.-mediated truce to the war in Yemen went into effect a minute before midnight on Wednesday, hours after Saudi-led air strikes hit military bases in the capital Sanaa and rival militias battled near the border with the kingdom. The coalition led by Saudi Arabia said in a statement it...

(theguardian)- A fleet of Russian warships is heading towards the Mediterranean on a route past the British Isles in what is believed to be the country’s largest naval deployment since the cold war. An MoD spokesman said: “When these ships near our waters we will man-mark them every step of...

(theguardian)- A charity operating in the Calais refugee camp is threatening to launch legal action against the British government unless it intervenes in the cases of 30 of the most vulnerable children stranded there. Citizens UK, which is working with the Home Office on the current Calais...

Russian warships off the coast of Norway are carrying fighter bombers that are likely to reinforce a final assault on the besieged Syrian city of Aleppo in two weeks, a senior NATO diplomat said on Wednesday, citing Western intelligence. The fleet passed by the Norwegian city of Bergen on...

 Iran may have played a role in recent Huthi missile attacks against US warships in the Red Sea, a top US general said Wednesday. Iranian-backed Huthi rebels are believed to be behind a series of incidents this month that saw surface-to-surface missiles fired at the USS Mason on at...

(The Daily Star)- The bodies of five migrants were recovered in the central Mediterranean on Wednesday during rescue operations that saved 300 others, the Italian coastguard said. The migrants were on board two inflatable dinghies and three small boats, the coastguard said in a statement....

(theguardian)- Saudi Arabia has raised $17.5bn (£14bn) from its first foray into the global bond markets as it seeks to repair the damage to its public finances caused by the collapse in the oil price since 2014. Strong investor demand meant the Middle Eastern kingdom raised more from the...

The fight for Mosul, launched this week by Iraqi security forces supported by U.S. air power and advisers, could take months and is likely to feature periods of fierce combat, the commander of U.S. forces in the Middle East said Wednesday. Army Gen. Joseph Votel, commander of U.S. Central...

(Tass)- Russia’s anti-terror operation in Syria has increased the interest of foreign customers in Russian weapons, Deputy Director of the Federal Service for Military and Technical Cooperation Anatoly Punchuk told TASS on Wednesday. "No doubt, during the ongoing Syria operation, the Russian...