A Palestinian military court slapped a military officer Wednesday with a one-year jail term for criticizing Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’ participation at the funeral of former Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres last month, according to the officer's lawyer. "Lieutenant-Colonel Osama...

Five young men were executed by Daesh militants in the Daesh-held city of Mosul in Iraq’s northern Nineveh province for alleged collaboration with Iraqi security forces, an army source told Anadolu Agency on Wednesday. "Daesh militants beheaded five young men in front of a crowd of people in...

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday accused France of deliberately luring Moscow into vetoing a United Nations resolution on Syria and suggested Paris was doing the bidding of the United States. Russia last week imposed its veto on a French-backed resolution condemning the violence...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Powerful Jabhat Fateh al-Sham has released 127 Ahrar al-Sham fighters were detained in Idlib province by the Jund al-Aqsa that pledged allegiance to the former al-Qaeda branch in Syria, Ahrar movement's spokesman said Wednesday. The military spokesman, Ahmed Qurra, said127 of...

Moroccan authorities on Wednesday dismantled a "Daesh-linked terrorist cell", according to a statement issued by the Interior Ministry. "Within the context of preemptive operations to counter terrorist threats, the Central Office of Judicial Research [intelligence agency] -- in coordination...

France confirmed on Wednesday two of its soldiers had been injured in a drone attack carried out by Daesh in Iraq. Government spokesman Stephane Le Foll told reporters the soldiers were hurt earlier this month near the Iraqi city of Erbil. Speaking after a cabinet meeting, Le Foll said...

Fifteen people were killed Wednesday when Russian warplanes struck opposition-held parts of Syria’s northwestern city of Aleppo, according to a local civil defense official. Speaking to Anadolu Agency, Beibars Meshaal, a pro-opposition civil defense official based in the city, said that...

The population of the Israeli-blockaded Gaza Strip has now surpassed the two-million mark, the Interior Ministry in Gaza’s Hamas-run government has announced. In a statement, the ministry’s General Directorate for Civil Affairs said the strip’s total population had surpassed two million...

Police suspect an arson attack in a fire which damaged a Muslim prayer room in Malmo, southern Sweden. Firefighters from three different fire stations in the city – Sweden’s third-largest – quickly put the fire out Tuesday, and no one was injured. The entire building was smoke damaged....

Japan's Toyota Motor Corp (7203.T) and Suzuki Motor Corp (7269.T) said they plan to explore a possible partnership, citing technological challenges and the need to keep up with consolidation in the global auto industry. Toyota invests heavily in R&D for automated driving functions and...

Three civilians were killed when two bombings rocked Iraqi capital Baghdad on Wednesday, according to a security source. Baghdad Police Colonel Salem al-Numaan told Anadolu Agency that the first bomb had gone off near a crowded market in southern Baghdad’s Al-Mahmudiya district, killing two...

The top U.N. human rights official repeated his call on Wednesday for a dilution of big powers' United Nations veto in cases of serious war crimes, but he gave little support to Syrian opposition hopes of strong-arming Russia over eastern Aleppo. Russian war planes have bombed rebel-held...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime warplanes killed 6 civilians, 3 children and 2 women, in air strikes hit the besieged Homs countryside, local reporter said Wednesday. The fighters jets carried out 7 raids on the towns of Talbiseh, Kafr Laha and Tiyba al-Gharbiya, or West Tiyba, leaving huge...

Writing by Ethar Abdulhaq (Zaman Al Wasl)- The Russian news agency TASS photographer, Valeriy Sharifulin, published recently a set of photos taken in regime-controlled areas of Aleppo, Damascus and Palmyra. Sharifulin revealed through his commentary on the photos-probably without knowing-...

Reporting by Mustafa Mohamed (Eqtsad)- Despite the hike of money transfer fees from Gaziantep to the besieged Eastern Aleppo neighborhoods have soared, Abo Ahmed, merchant, find himself obliged to pay $1200 fees for transferring $10,000, aiming they would reach to recipients. “This exchange...

(Zaman al-Wasl)- A committee subordinate to Hasaka Education Directory of regime government started to test sixth grade students coming from schools which adopted Kurdish self-administration curriculum of Democratic Union Party (PYD) in Hasaka province. The regime education directory refused...

The Turkish army killed at least 47 Daesh terrorists in northern Syria in the past 24 hours as part of Operation Euphrates Shield, the military said on Wednesday. The Turkish Air Force carried out airstrikes and launched artillery fire against Daesh positions in several areas of northern...

Turkish troops will remain at a military camp in northern Iraq until Islamic State is driven out of the nearby city of Mosul, Turkey's deputy prime minister said on Wednesday, signaling no respite in a row with Baghdad over the deployment. The Turkish soldiers are at the Bashiqa camp...

Pope Francis on Wednesday called for an "immediate ceasefire" in Syria to allow for the evacuation of civilians. Francis, speaking to tens of thousands of people in St. Peter's Square at his weekly general audience, said he wanted to "implore with all my strength" leaders to spare...

A Palestinian man died after being shot during clashes in the occupied East Jerusalem neighborhood of Silwan Tuesday night. Ali Shyouki, 20, was injured by gunfire and died after ambulances were unable to reach him as roads had been blocked by Israeli forces due to the clashes, claimed the...